Arnold Zwicky's Blog

Yesterday’s Zippy:

A catalogue of ills afflicting trees, but also a catalogue of vocabulary that entertains Bill Griffith, beginning with the rhyming knurls and burls, moving through knees (echoing knurls) and on to the rhyming blight and mite, and so on (with trolls thrown in for fun, and a gnome at the end).

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