Perhaps it should be entitled "Victor's Secret", but I didn't want to give too much away. Some readers might recognise this as a very old joke (some might say, quite unkindly, rather like the author). I've just turned it into a poem, as I thought it suited the given word for today.

Today's word: shivviness (n.) the uncomfortable feeling of wearing new undergarments.

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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