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Sunday 23 January 2022

Sunday Rest: reach out. Words Not To Use Today.

 What reach out does that words like approach and contact doesn't is to convey the idea that the reacher-out is sweetly offering a relationship which it would be unkind to refuse.

In our modern self-centred way it's adding guilt in an attempt to force a transaction.

And who would not resent being so manipulated?

Sunday Rest: reach out. The Old English form of reach was rǣcan.


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