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Mind your language

Do MPs actually know what ‘fungible’ means?

11 May 2019

9:00 AM

11 May 2019

9:00 AM

‘No darling,’ I said, ‘nothing to do with mushrooms.’ My husband had responded to my exclaiming ‘What does she think that means?’ on hearing Theresa May use the word fungible. This rare word now crops up in discussion of Brexit, perhaps caught from lawyers and business types. They seem to think it means ‘porous, malleable, flexible, convertible’.

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