What do daily words really mean?
Wales has one word for blue and green
You could translate both as turquoise
Translators spread visual joys
Eskimos have more words for snow
Renamed Inuit, there you go
Dialects have, as they all know
Ten to a hundred kinds of snow
Slush, powder, falling, icicles
Bikes, motorbikes, trikes, tricycles
Cakes, tarts, desserts, sweets, puddings, pies
Lies, half truths, polite words, white lies
Adjectives in front, French behind
Words help the deaf, songs hide the blind
Hard snow, soft sand, all kinds of touch
I didn't know I knew so much.
Alliteration, assonance, rhyme
Crosswords and Scrabble, great pastimes
Which fill with skill and give us pride
Sweep cobweb stress, words glow inside.
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