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Notes on... / What does your name say about you?

26.02.2025 9

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Notes on... / What does your name say about you?

26.02.2025 9

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Mind your language / The Twelve Hates of Christmas

I have set my husband a Christmas game. He wins a small chocolate sprout each time he spots a word in my list of Twelve Days of Christmas Hates. He...

22.12.2024 10

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Mind your language / Is ‘Chinatown’ offensive?

I’ve heard people using back-to-back housing to mean terraces separated by back yards. But strictly, back-to-back houses are built against a party...

21.11.2024 10

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Mind your language / Does ‘tummy’ turn your stomach?

‘How old does he think you are?’ asked my husband when I told him my GP had asked me if there was any pain in my tummy. Such infantilising language...

03.11.2024 20

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Mind your language / What does ‘maidan’ have to do with cricket?

Freddie Flintoff recently called the Maidan ‘the home of cricket’. For supporters of Ukraine’s independence, the Maidan saw continual...

10.09.2024 4

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Mind your language / When did monkeypox become ‘mpox’?

Writing about monkeypox in The Spectator in May 2022, Douglas Murray repeated a formula he had put forward in 2020, explaining ‘the problem with us...

01.09.2024 6

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Mind your language / Is Donald Trump a ‘badass’?

Logan Paul, a wrestler with 23 million YouTube subscribers, called Donald Trump’s immediate reaction to his shooting ‘the most badass thing I’ve...

22.07.2024 1

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