When Kissing Cousins Aren’t So Cute In an article first published by the London Sunday Times this week, Britain’s Environment Minister Phil Woolas again cited the dangers of inbreeding in the Pakistani immigrant community in Britain. Appropriately calling it “the elephant in the room”, Woolas was careful to point out it was the “Pakistani community” […]
I am a business lawyer and I love words and word origins. For those who don’t, now is the time to turn back. To borrow and expand Dante’s warning: “ABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO ENTER HERE. BEGONE ALL TIMID AND TREMULOUS SOULS!” What follows is strictly for the etymologically-obsessed. The core word in question is […]