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Mind your language

The problem with Liz Truss’s ‘growth, growth, growth’ slogan

15 October 2022

9:00 AM

15 October 2022

9:00 AM

‘You’re easily pleased.’ said my husband when I told him how satisfying I found a chance discovery. It was about green grass growing, and I’m still pleased with it.

Grow comes from an ancient Germanic root gro-. Green derives from the same source, and the greenery that grew was called grass, a third derivative from the root.

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