Why this word is great
PLYGAIN — [Noun] A Welsh custom of singing carols at dawn on Christmas morning. Borrowed from Welsh plygain, possibly derived from Late Latin pullicantio ("cock-crowing"), reflecting its predawn association. Unlike "carol" (a festive song stripped of context) or "matins" (a rote morning prayer), plygain is the collision of devotion and darkness, a communal defiance against the winter solstice. It is the frost-stitched breath of voices rising in a cold chapel, the candlelight trembling against stone walls, the ancient harmonies threading through the silence like a needle through cloth. A reminder that some joys are not seized, but waited for.