Letters: Mistakes in Covid response, lockdown fatigue and Auckland weather
4 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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Should Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern apologise to the Botany KFC worker who claims she has been unfairly criticised? Photo / Mark Mitchell, File
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Piling on criticism
The demand from the KFC rule breaker that the Prime Minister apologises to her personally, because she thought the messaging wasn t clear enough tells you everything you need to know the how and the why certain people think the rules don t apply to them.
Was this person in a coma for the past month ? Their sibling attended a hot spot of infection, Papatoetoe High School. This would have been plastered over all social media. 99.9 per cent of affected people understood this and went home and isolated.
didn t you allow atty. gen. whinge to recuse herself and pass it on to her deputy? a reasonable person might have done that. is mystifying how he sanctimoniously suggests he has done this all with concern for ethics and the truth but is really being driven by personal considerations, how will the election come out and how am i going to look? the interview did not just lack new information, comey pulling a 9.8 million viewers, 9 million less than those who tuned in for the roseann reboot. a federal judge considering a third-party to review documents found in the michael cohen grade. donald trump and cohen s personal lawyer argued the items contain protected materials and out of nowhere, and s lawyer mentioned sean hannity is another client surprising even hannity. michael cohen never
revirginize, sarcophage, wenge. that s one of my favorite british words ever, whinge, but there s a crisis with that word, whinge, and all the other words it came from. they re all sourced to meand meanderings of memory, which presumably was owned by one of the early editors of the oxford english dictionary, which is why it s all throughout this wook. recently, when a modern staffer was working on the entry, revirginize, to render virge cardinal again, to purify anew. it was recorded in meanderings of memory, by an author known only at nightlark. when they went looking, the book is nowhere to be found. the chief bibliographer of oxford english dictionary took up the search.
find it anywhere and has the oed editors stumped. if we go back to the word fringy, the second documented use of that word to mean covered with fringes, it is from this. an 1852 book called meanderings of memory. the usage was fluttering as the man tell s fringy rim. all in all, 51 citations in the oed come from this book, meanderings of memory. this book is cited all over the oxford english dictionary to define the earliest usage of words like chapelled, couchward, epistle, revirginize, seriously, skaf aj, vermined. whinge. one of my favorites ever.