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Senior judges rule sheriff was wrong say hun is Protestant slur

A panel of Scotland’s most senior judges have found a sheriff was wrong to conclude that the word “hun” is a form of religiously aggravated…

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SNP supporters are scunnered, so they ll vote Labour

Support for independence is still strong, but without any path to a referendum nationalists will instead settle for ousting the Tories

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SUSIE DENT reveals the delightful forgotten words that capture Christmas from a frenzy of scurryfunging to the bliss of quafftide!

SUSIE DENT: Scurryfunge: Few words can be more useful at Christmas than this one, borrowed from U.S. dialect where it means to hastily and frenziedly tidy a house just before guests arrive.

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15 Words for Gossips and Chatterboxes

We all know someone who never seems to stop talking. They’re a yammerer, a babbler, a chatterbox but they’re also a blatherskite, a clatterfart, and a twattle-basket.

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Flapdoodler, roorback, yulehole: Why forgotten words need rescuing from obscurity

As a child, the gift of a dictionary sparked my love of rare words – which snowballed like a hogamadog

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