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Latest blog post

31 December 2022

A long short story

'Short' is a funny little word. But you know what it means. Shorten a story and it gets smaller. That's how you cut a long story short.But for some reason, 'shorten' (vb) has another meaning, namely to add fat to, in order to make something tender an...