The perils of euphemism

Michael Quinion returned yesterday to his weekly World Wide Words column (#813, 1/5/13) after a month’s absence, offering us (in the “Sic!” section, on errors and infelicities of all kinds) this entertaining item: The London Mail online was visited on [December 14th] from New Zealand by John Neave, who found this report: “He told Cardiff … Continue reading The perils of euphemism