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Competition

Mind your language

28 April 2018

9:00 AM

28 April 2018

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 3045 you were invited to provide a poem about euphemisms.
 
You avoided politics and sex (mostly), preferring instead to focus on the language of dying and the words and expressions that enable us to sidestep the D-word (according to David Crystal, there are more than 1,000 words for death categorised in the Historical Thesaurus).

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