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2 April 2022

9:00 AM

2 April 2022

9:00 AM

A reader (Rosie) has drawn my attention to a new(ish) word: ‘coddiwomple’. Rosie wrote to say that she has been travelling around Australia since 2004, and hasn’t yet found the idyllic place in which to settle down. So, she keeps on travelling. She has been told that she is a ‘coddiwomple’.

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