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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Lucy Mangan

Digested week: new words, extrovert propaganda and a perfect train journey

1940 black and white photo of two girls in matching patterned summer frocks helping their mother peg laundry on a washing line.
‘Tradwife’: monetising all the most boring bits of motherhood and domesticity on Instagram, under the guise of upholding conservative tradition. As the Cambridge Dictionary may not have defined it. Photograph: LNA/PA

Monday

My goodness, is it time for the Cambridge Dictionary’s annual release of the new words that have made it into its hallowed listings already! It seems to come round quicker every year. Possibly that should be “more quickly”. Their grammarian splinter group will let me know.

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