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Mind Your Language
With a general meaning of ‘non-woke’ it became an all-purpose term of approbation
The compound word describes what the vulgar press calls a supermoon
The two oldest senses are found less in newspapers than in books
Context is the means by which native speakers learn the meaning of words
My husband wins a small chocolate sprout each time he spots a word
Kingsley Amis, in a letter to The Spectator in 1995, attributed to ‘fastidiousness’ the rise of tidbit in preference to titbit
It might not define all that Americans want in a president
My husband has ordered a copy of Craig Brown’s new book
