Word To Use Today: clavicle.

 Here's a lovely word: 

clavicle.

It means collar-bone:

illustration (and there's a cool video HERE) by Anamatography

*Creative writing tip: breaking a collar-bone is a very useful injury to give someone in a novel if you want them to be out of action for a while and in pain, but can't get them medical attention or want them to be in danger of dropping dead.

Yes, novelists are a rotten lot.

There are other clavi-beginning words, and most of them have nothing at all to do with the word clavicle (in fact I think I'll keep them for a Spot the Frippet) but one word that's clavicle's sister, as it were, is clavichord:

Grande Gigue played by Ryan Lane Whitney, composed by Johann Wilhelm Häßler

Which gives us something fast, sweet and cheerful to finish this post.

Word To Use Today: clavicle. This word comes from the Latin clāvicula, from clāvis, key.