What image do you get when you hear the word ‘drug’? Write a word or phrase that is associated with the term ‘drug’? When I asked participants to answer these two questions at a workshop on critical ...

What image do you get when you hear the word ‘drug’? Write a word or phrase that is associated with the term ‘drug’? When I asked the participants to answer these two questions at a workshop on ...

FOR the benefit of David Lacey and Peter Dolan (HAS, both Page 9, Jan 13) I will try to explain the difference between words like “Geordie” and words like “Paki”. Geordie is a name which Tyneside ...

I'm working on a project for which we need to keep a running list of items. Someone suggested that we call it the "Master Tracking List", and I instantly found that a little off-putting. For me, it ...

The words and phrases permeate nearly every aspect of our society. “Master bedrooms” in our homes. “Blacklists” and “whitelists” in computing. The idiom “sold down the river” in our everyday speech.

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