Frozen Vegetables

Does the average British newspaper reader know what a 'caesura' is? Would a diligent editor let a journalist use that word as a metaphor? I thought I might have a personal blind-spot so I looked it up. I picked the first random unusual word that came into my head: 'misprision' - the failure to inform the authorities of an act of treason (or other felony). I compared that with caesura; misprision is used 40 times more frequently than caesura

This is why I love sports journalism. It is the wild west of the newspaper continent. I think an editor would object to 'caesura' in a news article about Parliament or foreign affairs. I wonder if they even bother reading the sports reports. I looked up the personal details of the journalist: they have an Oxford education. The subject they studued is not documented, but it's worth an each-way bet on English or Classics, and presumably a lot of sport

A caesura is a pause in a line of (Latin or modern) verse. Perhaps if you analyse or teach poetry you know that. I recently read a poem that had double or treble spaces between words in some of the lines. I took that for an affectation. Now I suspect I was probably being signalled to leave a caesura. So much to learn. 

Some people might see football as poetry, or maybe opera. It still seems a bit of a stretch to say that Liverpool Football Club have a caesura in their season, but I admire them for writing it and I'm pleased they got away with it

Is this a caesura in the year for a lots of plant life? It's a common growth strategy to germinate in late summer, lay down a root network in autumn and then stop growing over winter but surge anew in the spring, based on the platform already laid down. The risk the plant takes is that it must survive this - the rigours of winter; the catastroohe of frozen leaves. But brassicas are old hands. Ice crystals may form on the surface, but the plant knows how to manage its internal envirnoment to preclude their damaging presence in the leaf tissues. A caesura, but not a holiday