WHEN you are a young child and you really want to emphasise displeasure with something, your parents or green vegetables, then the word most commonly used is hate.

Every parent has at one time or another been hit with the venomous cry of “I hate you!”.

Your crime normally ranges from refusing a biscuit to turning off the TV at bedtime, but they all illicit the same response from tired children, to be fair almost exclusively boys.

It is the same with food they don’t agree with, mainly vegetables, which bring on snots and tears and a very loud I HATE this in amongst it all.

They soon grow out of it and hate becomes a word that is less frequently used, because as an adult there are very few things on a daily basis that invoke such emotions.

But the word is about to be used much more frequently from next month with the passing of the controversial hate........

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