The Little Book of Second Mentions

The Art of Avoiding Repetition

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Postscript summary

For over a decade Juliet and Matthew Maguire have been documenting journalists’ never-ending quest to say the same thing in different ways. Some of the finest and most desperate of these creative variations are compiled here, including ‘the sweet umber dressing’ (brown sauce), ‘the eight-legged marvels’ (spiders) and ‘the amply eared crisp salesman’ (Gary Lineker, of course).

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