Today's word: Thule (n.) an extreme point, or the extreme point of a journey of discovery. Pronounced "thoo-lee".

An early Greek explorer named Pytheas wrote of a journey to Thule in the 4th century BC. Iceland, Greenland, Norway and northern Scotland have all been suggested as possible locations for the "ends of the Earth" he describes.

The word is apt for today, as it was on this day in 1911 that Roald Amundsen and his team reached the South Pole.

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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