Today's word: misocapnist (n.) someone who hates tobacco smoke.

Seeing today's word brought up a pet peeve of mine (yes, I know, hard to believe, but I have one or two). It is this - how much time and effort is wasted in telling every one of us what we may or may or not do? It's all-pervasive. You can drink this, but not that. You may not inhale this, but we've found something new, and that's perfectly OK. Don't eat this, it will kill you. Don't say this, you might offend someone. And don't ever even think this... am I ranting again? lol It seems not only are we all living in a nanny state nowadays, but we are all so obsessed with what everyone else can't do. Wouldn't it be great if we just worried about sorting ourselves out? Thanks for listening, your donations are welcome, and are fully tax-deductible.

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.

Thanks for reading.

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