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People who say that money doesn’t bring happiness are often those who don’t have any to spare.
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Most Britons are not good spellers
The vast majority of youngsters seldom read newspapers, magazines or books and when they write the language it’s to text their friends with truncated words that are written as they are pronounced
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Why do we say that someone is ‘the apple of my eye’? Why not some smaller fruit such as the grape, cherry or gooseberry?
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The Spanish word for being legally bound to stay at home is ‘confinamiento’, which translates neatly into ‘confinement’, an old word that covers this situation.
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The young have their own slang because they don’t want old people (that is, their parents) to even get a gist of what they are saying to each other.
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As the word ‘glamorous’ goes on the banned list - what’s next?
I have recently noticed that there is an ever-growing list of supposedly ‘banned’ words that certain people find “inappropriate” or on occasions, supposedly “demeaning”.
Frank Leavers16/04/2024 11:03