Delighted to have a short piece in
Nancy Campbell's just published The Polar Tombola: A Book of Banished Words (photo from
@BirdEditions).
I met Nancy on Twitter
via a photo of a snowdrop three years ago and we came to 'know' each other through my dear late stepdad. My own banished word is described in 'The Hoot of an Owl', here is a fragment:
Coxsackie – pronounced cook-sah-kee – is the name of a small town on the Hudson River in upstate New York. Derived from Native American language, it...
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Published on April 10, 2017 12:57