Word: aitchison
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...keep it brief"). It also gives advice on--gasp!--how to cheat on your husband or boyfriend ("Cover your tracks"). Um, isn't this tacky or even a bit--dare we say it--déclassé? "We decided it was time for a bit of a change," says editor Jo Aitchison. "Etiquette will be a survival guide for modern life while becoming a trusted friend as well." Yes, the kind of friend your mother never wanted you to bring home...
...Sportswriters question whether it's still appropriate to call a missed goal a tragedy or refer to two teams going to battle against each other. And Oxford professor Jean Aitchison wonders whether the very word war has lost its meaning through overuse, speculating that "we are going to have to think up a new word...