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}}In the same way that {{author|Douglas Adams}} and John Lloyd ingeniously recycled underused place-names and introduced them into the language, showing prescient instinct for ecological conservation, so nowadays do our celebrities take existing ideas that have fallen out of favour and re-fashion the words describing them to suit the modern vernacular, breathing new life into dead old words. We are all, of course, familiar with the reworking of “[[humble]]” in the hands of LinkedIn opinionistas — no one is humble in the old sense anymore, so we might as well re-craft a perfectly sound phonic to mean something else — and the [[JC]] will gather other examples in our butterfly-net as we doom-ramble around the world wide web. Do write in ([mailto:enquiries@jollycontrarian.com by email], [[Twitter]] ([https://twitter.com/ContrarianJolly @ContrarianJolly]) or owl | }}In the same way that {{author|Douglas Adams}} and John Lloyd ingeniously recycled underused place-names and introduced them into the language, showing prescient instinct for ecological conservation, so nowadays do our celebrities take existing ideas that have fallen out of favour and re-fashion the words describing them to suit the modern vernacular, breathing new life into dead old words. We are all, of course, familiar with the reworking of “[[humble]]” in the hands of LinkedIn opinionistas — no one is humble in the old sense anymore, so we might as well re-craft a perfectly sound phonic to mean something else — and the [[JC]] will gather other examples in our butterfly-net as we doom-ramble around the world wide web. Do write in ([mailto:enquiries@jollycontrarian.com by email], [[Twitter]] ([https://twitter.com/ContrarianJolly @ContrarianJolly]) or owl) if you find any. | ||
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