Today's word: paragrandine (n.) a device for protection against hail.

Who'd have thought there is such a thing? If you Google the word, you can see such a device for protecting cars. Sadly, I can't reproduce the image due to copyright restrictions. This weekend just past, my other half and I both found ourselves in need of replacing our aging vehicles - so off we went to get new ones. That is probably what inspired this little ditty.

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My much-treasured Christmas present for 2017 is a book by Paul Anthony Jones: "The cabinet of linguistic curiosities". Each page contains a descriptive story about some obscure or archaic word. It occurred to me it would be a fun exercise to try and write, each day, a poem featuring the "word of the day" from the book.

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