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Positive upheaval

This one's a mouthful

Making perfect sense of it

Good-bye privatisation; hello nationalisation Nationalise, don't take over

In praise of verbal 'turn signals'

The question is just how many make up a 'troop' — and how many make up 'troops.'

I remember all the gnashing of teeth it took for me to adjust to people referring to a publication, or a publication format, as a ‘product.'

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The 2010 US elections, the gift that keeps on giving, have imparted new meaning to the phrase "all over but the shouting"

we can't help remembering the line, widely attributed to Bismarck, to the effect that anyone who cares about legislation or sausage would not want to observe the making of either

All sorts of meanings have been read into the results of the midterm congressional elections

Gossip was a person before it was talk