One snooker doesn’t make a summer
Ah, summer in England! Strawberries and cream at Wimbledon as sun (or rain) beats down on Centre Court and the … Continued
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words in the news
You’ve got to accentuate the positive
At long last some semblance of life as it was BC (before Coronavirus) is returning or soon will. Shops have
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‘Lights, camera, action!’
It’s tempting to suppose that if you’re working from home (WFH) what to wear is a non-issue, but experience during
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The roadmap to … exit
COVID-19 and all it entails has spawned dozens of novel words. At the same time, existing ones have been called
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Rewilding the cityscape
Going back to nature is positive. According to Collins COBUILD dictionary, it means you want to “return to a simpler
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It’s VE Day. “We’ll metaphor again…
don’t know where, don’t know when, but I know we’ll metaphor again some sunny day.” Throughout World War II Dame
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“Who’s Zoomin’ Who?”
“No man is an island, entire of itself.” The truth of John Donne’s powerful aphorism has gone on receiving heart-warming
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Furlough: a military word on civvy street
Furlough has featured heavily in UK media recently. So much so, that on BBC Radio 4’s Money Box on 28
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Green is Good
Over the last few years, the language of increasing global temperatures has been — well, heating up. In the early