Just when I thought that the world couldn't get any sillier, Aberdeen University has added a trigger-warning to Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped to warn its students that the book contains 'depictions of kidnapping'.
Well, we'd never have guessed.
Word To Use Today: kidnap. Nap is an obsolete word for to steal, an echo of which is still heard in the word nab. Kid is a Scandinavian word that's related to the Shetlands word kidi, which means lamb.
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