NOV 14, duplication: claptrap

  a) Review of material posted on November 14 in previous years ...

2020: pandemic poetry, social distancing (illustrated poem)  
2021: bi-lyrical limerick, fiefdom (poetic novelty)

2022: higher connections, gnostic (poem) 
2023: decorative touches, 3 untitled abstract pieces (fabric art)

fabric art, R.C.H.

b) Today's Offering (Nov 14, 2024):

Authors' Note: The disparaging term gobbledegook was first used in 1944 by a Texas politician named Maverick (scion of the original staunchly independent thinker). Its meaning — pompous, overinflated language — gave rise a few year later to the equivalent bafflegab. These expressions, employing repetition of sounds, have a musical and amusing quality, as do their venerable synonyms --hogwash, poppycock, balderdash, bunkum and tommyrot, but only their close cousin claptrap (alternatively clap-trap) -- would qualify as a reduplication.

Readers willing to go down an internet rabbit-hole can easily get to a collection of more than a dozen other  SHORT VERSES  in which we have dealt with specific reduplications. 

If interested, you could also discover three fairly lengthy PATTER-SONGS about this fascinating linguistic phenomenon. These songs form an important part of our cycle of 9 songs about "Word Pairs".