OPINION: A little column about something big
By Ruth Walker
In English it's often the littlest words that work the hardest. And the most familiar ones often have particularly obscure derivations.
Take big, for instance. Big has been in the news lately. Some six million Britons, jubilant over their queen's diamond jubilee, sat down June 3 to "The Big Lunch." This exercise in community-building was part of Prime Minister David Cameron's vision of his country as "the Big Society."
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