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Mind your language

Bunch

7 January 2023

9:00 AM

7 January 2023

9:00 AM

‘It’s very annoying when someone pulls a grape or two off the bunch,’ said my husband, glowering at the ‘obscenely’ denuded pedicels. To him it is a crime not to break off a cluster or cut its peduncle with grape-scissors.

For me a far more annoying trend is to use bunch in a strange new way.

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