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Thursday, 7 January 2021

The unscheduled schedule: a rant.

 Line from the Telegraph Online 29/12/2020:

The Irish Government will hold an unscheduled meeting on Wednesday.

And to think that I was hoping that 2021 would make a bit more sense.

Word To Use Today: schedule. This word came to English in the 1300s, when it was sometimes spelled cedule and sometimes sedule. It came from Latin via Old French. Schedula means a small piece of paper. Scheda, obviously, just means a piece of paper.

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