Monday, June 06, 2005

Word of the Day: cwm

Word of the Day

cwm (n)

A valley (originally Welsh). Pronounced like "koom"

Below a fertile cwm spread, with barns and the orchards of summer,
Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt, in places rising high . . .


(Apologies to Walt Whitman for the slightly altered quotation.)

Hmm. A real word with no vowels? Read more about this strange little word here.
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