50 Words for Snow

A Dubious Award For The Squeezed Middle

August 14, 2013The World in Words

The Oxford English Dictionary has revealed its word of the year: squeezed middle (hey, that’s two words!). Don’t ask me to define it. British Labor leader Ed Miliband ran into trouble doing that. Suffice to say, it refers to a class of people, who would appear to make up more than 90% of the population— […]

Kate Bush’s ’50 Words For Snow’

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