Why is it that politicians always say they will 'redouble' their efforts when they really mean 'double'? 'Redouble' strictly, speaking, means quadruple! I haven't played bridge for forty-odd years, but seem to remember that you couldn't redouble before you had doubled.
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Yes. Perhaps they mean (although I doubt it!) that they have already doubled their efforts once, and will now do it again! 
And, absent, they never make 'cuts', always 'savings'. 
That's right, soop, but they do make 'pledges'.
...which are made 'perfectly unclear...'
I wonder when it will dawn on politicians that nobody actually believes anything they say? 
phoenix
I think the boat has sailed on the 'decimate' issue!
I've probably said this before, but 'media' is one of my hobbyhorses and I fear that the boat has sailed on that one too. Media is, as you all know, the plural of 'medium'. And as for 'criteria': even children who didn't do classics at school used to be taught that this was plural, as is 'phenomena'.
Heigh Ho!
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