10 AUGUST 2002, page 16

Mind Your Language

I JUST happened to mention to a friend how ineradicable popular etymology is — when it is in error, that is. I hadn't finished sounding off about posh when he received an answer......

What Makes Mugabe Shudder?

White skin, that's what. Fergal Keane deplores the shameful silence in response to ethnic cleansing in Zimbabwe NAOMI RAAFF is leaving Africa. She was born on the continent, as......