When I was a teacher, an unfamiliar student approached me in the schoolyard during play lunch, or the mid-morning break. “Is it true you read the dictionary for fun?” he enquired. His response to my ...

Or is it showing signs of being cactus, knackered, buggered, stuffed, as it succumbs to the rising tide of social media slang, management jargon and Americanisms? It augurs well for the idiom that ...