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I should like to become a politician if only to expand my hailing skills. The BBC seems immoderately fond of the word and chucks it in everywhere, but I can't really work out what they mean by it: Greet? Applaud? Worship? I rather like to think of a politician waving frantically at a passing policy and then cursing as it disappears round a corner. I fear that the only thing I have ever hailed is a cab, and the occasional Mary.
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Very witty. What fun you must have writing these little gems!
ReplyDeleteIn your illustration, Dogberry, is that a hail or a salute?
ReplyDeleteOr is he frantically gesticulating for someone (Gideon-George, Mick, Vince?) to stop?
I think we should be told.
He is a cat who walks alone.
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