Thursday's Words Matter Week challenge asks:
If you had to eliminate one word or phrase from the English language, what would it be? Why?
Ideally, I would send Death packing, both in word and in action. Where he goes after getting a pink slip is his business; he just needs to stay away from humanity!
However, because I could not stop to banish this big, bad bete noire, I will kick something almost equally vile to the curb: ignorance. The practice as well as the word.
Why? For it breeds a majority of our ills. Wherever it dims the path, there are pitfalls to be found!
I could mention a multitude of evil germinants from it--racism, chauvinism, cruelty, and apathy among them--but ignorance marks the spot where the already blighted seed takes root.
Now, you tell me, what are your language bugbears?
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