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Sunday, 13 February 2022

Sunday Rest: quaranteen.

 Yes, sorry, this is a hideous word, so let's get this over as quickly as possible.

Fortunately, this a word without much purpose. It means nothing interesting or useful, it's just been presented to the world in an attempt to...what? Be clever, perhaps.

The word describes a teenager who has survived the Covid-19 pandemic.

Yes, that is exactly the same as...a teenager.

No use at all.

Sunday Rest: quaranteen. It's easy to see how someone came up with this word. The word quarantine comes from the Italian quarantina, a period of forty days, from quaranta, forty, from the Latin word quadrāgintā.

Forty days...good grief!


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