Tag: politics
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“Tory”: How the conquest of Ireland named the UK Conservative Party
With Michael Gove throwing in his hat and Boris Johnson throwing in his towel, the post-Brexit scramble for Tory – or Conservative – leadership was thrown into confusion this week in the UK. This chaos is fitting, if we look to history of Tory, a word embroiled in many conflicts of its own. A Tory story …
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“Leave”: a big, fat, sticky mess. Literally.
The result of the “Brexit” referendum is historic: Britain has voted to leave the European Union. The very word leave has made its own history, too: It originally meant “to remain.” Leave, or what “remains” Historically, we can consider leave a contronym: a word that means its opposite, like cleave, dust, and sanction. In the…
Mashed Radish 