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AUTUMN’S MOST APT ADJECTIVE HAS TURNED AWFUL

AUTUMN’S MOST APT ADJECTIVE HAS TURNED AWFUL

Autumn has arrived. For the next sev­er­al weeks the inex­orable change in the colours of the for­est that envelopes us here chal­lenges descrip­tion. A fit­ting word would be “awe­some”. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, despite at least a dozen syn­onyms, it’s a rote response to every­thing from the tru­ly awe-inspir­ing to the most pro­sa­ic, which strands it in a ver­bal wasteland.Read the rest