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Mind your language

Mind your language: Heritage this and heritage that

The most overused word in supermarket fruit and veg departments

23 May 2015

9:00 AM

23 May 2015

9:00 AM

Benidorm has applied for World Heritage status. To achieve this, says Unesco, a site must have ‘outstanding universal value’ in one of ten natural or cultural categories. Perhaps Benidorm is ‘a masterpiece of human creative genius’ — clever to get all those people to go there on holiday.

Heritage is overdone now, especially as an adjective.

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