Word of the Day
Not the one on the blog. I get one emailed to me.
Today's word is Cockshut.
Sadly, the definition does not live up to my expectations.
Around Christmas 1995 a friend came to visit me in my newly married, presumably happy, life in Michigan. We went to a museum where we saw an exhibit of a Japanese tea room. Outside the display was an attempt to describe this exhibit. It started with something like: “Within the tea room, one feels loneliness which penetrates into the marrow of one’s bones...” and ended with the caution “Please do not enter the tea room”. I laughed out loud. If you don’t get it, you probably should leave.
Not the one on the blog. I get one emailed to me.
Today's word is Cockshut.
Sadly, the definition does not live up to my expectations.
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