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Mind your language

Does ‘nestled’ offend you?

9 November 2024

9:00 AM

9 November 2024

9:00 AM

‘Shockin’!’ exclaimed my husband, almost biting a chunk out of his whisky glass.

I had read to him an enquiry from Michael Howard KC, leader of the Admiralty Bar since 2000. ‘As your husband does not seem to have been enraged yet by the use of nestled as a (presumably) transitive verb in the passive voice (“nestled in the rolling Cotswold landscape” etc), perhaps I could persuade you to inveigh against this widespread abuse.’

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