Is the word “buttress” real or made-up?
Can you pronounce “bathos”? Can you?
Such questions rouse me each morning
posed by an app I downloaded (I think)
and am now too busy (lazy) to delete.
If iffy, “buttress” is indeed a real word.
And yes, I can pronounce “bathos.”
An app my wife downloaded (she did)
records birdsong then proceeds to tell
her who it is in fact who’s crooning.
Just this morning she heard 13—e.g.
American Crow, Brown Thrasher,
Mississippi Kite, Northern Cardinal,
Mourning Dove, Acadian Flycatcher,
American Robin, and (drumroll please)
her BIRD OF THE DAY! Gray Catbird.
I ask her Do you think birds are real or
made-up? Her eyes pronounce “bathos.”
Name of Meredith’s bird app please. Free?
Now that I have looked it up, I wonder if I can sneak it into a conversation today…