Word of the Day
eyot (n)
A small island (pronounced like "eight")
"That night they camped on a small eyot close to the western bank."
--J.R.R. Tolkein, The Lord of the Rings
Sometimes spelled "ait"
"Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls deified among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city."
--Charles Dickens, Bleak House
No man is an island, but on a scale of one to ten, I've often felt like an ait.
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