SEP 17, palinku (poetic novelty): 45th prez, 2/7

a) Reprise of material posted on September 17 in previous years ...

2020: palinku, baked goods (poetic novelty)  
2021: palinku, Kansas (KS) (poetic novelty) 
2022: palinku, schoolboy humor #1 (poetic novelty)
2023: palinku, reliable transport (poetic novelty)

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b) Today's Offering (Sep 18, 2024): 

 You can readily view all our verses of this type if you proceed with a single click to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE. (Or if you prefer, you can stay on this particular blogsite and look for the offerings for the 7th and 17th days of each month -- there are now more than 60 of these.)
 

SEP 16, handbook of micro-nutrients: nutrient deficiency

 a) Reprise of material posted on September 16 in prior years ...

2020: waterfowl, gallinules (illustrated poem)

2021: culinary verse, gefilte fish (illustrated poem) 
2022: hellenophilia, approaching Santorini (illustrated poem)
2023: chemical states, eastern US (wordplay maps)

gallinule,
Montsouris Park, Paris

b) Today's Offering (Sep 16, 2024): 

poetry lyrics:/ Metabolic reactions; such stuff,/ Make deficiency states rather tough./
 Mother Nature takes pains/ As this Handbook explains;/ Lacking minerals and vites/
 You'd be caught dead to rights -- / It's N.B. that you're getting enough.   

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SEP 15, waterfowl: seabird feeders

a) Reprise of material posted on September 15 in previous years ...

2020: reptiles, crocodilian (illustrated poem)
2021: new world palindromes, #45 (wordplay map)  

2022: Italian loanwords, vendetta (poem)
2023: exemplification, Donald Duck's malarkey (poem)

This South Carolina alligator is a crocodilian

b) Today's Offering (Sep 15, 2024):

poetry lyrics:/ Marsh-side neighborhood -- one owner's taste:/ Sea-bird feeder, with anchovy paste./
 The advantage specific/ (Tho' the odor's horrific)/ -- No scavenging squirrels, hence no waste.

SEP 14, (re)duplication: hoi-polloi

  a) Reprise of material posted on September 14 in prior years ...

2020: Toronto ravines, Brickworks 1 (photo-collage)
2021: variant Nantucket limerick, Bay-Stater (illustrated poem) 
2022: Ontario nostalgia, native cactus (illustrated poem)
2023: cinematic guide, gainless, M*A*S*H (poem)

Tb) Today's Offering (Sep 14, 2024):

poetry lyrics: Sighed Lord Uppercrust," Plebes should now know/ Hoi polloi
 (once meant every John Doe./ Connotes lowbrow or high -- /Meaning's changed;
 who knows why?/ I'll admit, that's a bit of a blow./ More disruption, the older I grow!" 

Authors' Note: 

The (re)duplication hoi polloi derives from the ancient Greek term for 'the many'. This expression, like its close cousin riff-raff (also a reduplication), has been used in class-conscious England for severlal centuries; similar expressions, tinged with disparagement include plebeian, and the great unwashed In a recent inexplicable twist, as described by speedysnail, hoi polloi has come to be used, in some circumstances, to mean the exact opposite.

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".

SEP 13, ambulatory verse: hasten

 a) Reprise of material posted on September 13 in prior years ...

2020: new world palindromes, 37 (wordplay maps)
2021: reptiles, origin of flight (illustrated poem) 
2022: singular plurals, pluralia tantum, condolences (poem)
2023: pill-poppin' poem, anti-malarials (illustrated poem)

b) Today's Offering (Sep 13, 2024):

poetry lyrics:/ Ambulation? You're rushed, in a hurry -- / Variations abound,

 so don't worry:/ Hustled, hastened and speeded,/ Streak or hurtle where needed,/

 By dint of a sprint or a scurry.  

 You can review all our verses on this topic, accumulated for you on our companion blog "Edifying Nonsense", by clicking HERE.

SEP 12, folio-entry, couples: black-necked swans

 a) Review of material posted on September 12 in prior years ...

2020: political palindromes, NNN (wordplay)

2021: portraits of couples, Red Slider and family (photo folio) 
2022: portraits of couples, goats (photo folio)
2023: portraits of couples, dogpark figures (photo folio)

b) Today's Offering (Sep 12, 2024): 

 

You can view all of our folio-photos from the collection of 'Couples' portraits in a wider context on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.

SEP 11, oncology verse: hem-oncologists

  a) Review of material posted on September 11 in prior years ...

2020: Toronto ravines, Rosedale Valley (photo-collage)
2021: garden intruder, leaf-blowers (illustrated

poem) 
2022: numbers, a dozen (illustrated poem)

2023: dental feelings, amalgam (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Sep 11, 2024):

Authors' Note: The field of hematology encompasses a wide range of blood maladies, including anemias and clotting disorders. On our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense", you can find a related blogpost with numerous verses on the latter topic. Click HERE for "To Clot, or Not to Clot".

 In some academic centres, hematologists have super-specialized in treating the group of cancers involving blood elements, such as leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma; these experts are variably known as hem-oncologists or haematology-oncologists.  

 

 You can view all such verses in a wider context by proceeding to the collection of "ONCOLOGY VERSES" on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!

SEP 10, pill-poppin' poetry: oral hypoglycemics (anti-diabetic pills)

 a) Review of material posted on September 10 in prior years ...

2020: Italian loanwords, Gino's food intolerance (poem - 'brief saga')
2021: waterfowl, cormorant rookery (poem - 'brief saga') 
2022: trace minerals, vitamins, beri-beri and alcohol (poem - 'brief saga')
2023: medical statistics, clinical trial (poem - 'brief saga')

Authors' Note: This poem satirizes the 'direct-to-consumer' ads by Big Pharma that Americans are subjected to alll day while watching television. Such public announcements are mandated by only a handful of regulatory national agencies in the entire world, one being the U.S.

Orgactis is an apocryphal (i.e. 'fake'), pharmaceutical product, a medication taken by mouth that is marketed for longterm use in adult onset ('type 2') diabetes. That disorder is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. 'Jack' is the patient portrayed as possibly benefitting from the drug in the first verse.

Many classes of drugs have recently become available to control type-2 diabetes; these have undergone, particularly recently, rigorous monitoring during the stage of early drug approval. Earlier, one of the first groups of anti-diabetic pills, the sulfonylureas, (e.g. chlorpropamide and tolbutamide), discovered in 1942, became widely used worldwide. However in 2013, a monitoring group raised serious concerns that these particular chemical compounds were associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular death. The American FDA (Food and Drug Administration) now requires that anti-diabetic sulfonylureas carry a warning label to that effect.

You can view informative verses like this one in a wider context by proceeding to the collection "Pill-Popping Poems (selected pharmaceuticals)" on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE! 

SEP 9, basic medical science: autophagia

 a) Review of material posted on September 9 in prior years ...

2020: Greek prefixes, auto- (illustrated poem)
2021: patients and maladies, diabetes insipidus (poem) 
2022: parasites, cat fleas (poem)
2023: word-pairs, echoic binomials E -H (wordplay lexicon

b) Today's Offering (Sep 9, 2024):

Authors' Note:

 -some (SOHM, sometimes ZOHM): Greek suffix for an 

intracellular body, or organelle, e.g. chromosome or lysosome

-phagia, or -phagy: Greek suffix for eating, or consumption

lysis: term of Greek origin for destruction or disintegration

lysosome: cellular organelle adapted to the destruction of extracellular material which has been internalized

autophagosome: membranous organelle that entraps targeted intracellular components, later merging with lysosomes for degradation and recycling of these components; their role in cell defence and in disease causation is under investigation

 And, HERE's a verse about autophagia explaining use of the term to describe a rare and gruesome phenomenon. 

Readers can enjoy our whole collection of verses on this topic by clicking HERE. 

SEP 8, OEDILFian limericks: poems about Elizabeth 2 (two year memorial - 2011)

 a) Review of material posted on September 8 in prior years ...

2020: classic palindrome, Able ere Elba. (illustrated poem)
2021: waterfowl, ruddy turnstones (illustrated poem) 
2022: OEDILFian limericks, tribute to Elizabeth II (poems, various)
2023: non-sequitur, Edmond Hoyle (illustrated poem)

b) Today's Offering (Sep 8, 2024):