Drumroll please: 2016's Word of the Year is...

27 November 2016 - 02:00
By Sue de Groot

There's an old joke about a game ranger who is trying to decide which of two lions ate an Eastern European tourist. It ends with the punch line: "The Czech is always in the male."Now we've got that out of the way, let's talk about post. I recently watched a charming 10-year-old film called The Missing Postman, in which a mailman forced into early retirement goes postal and sets off on his bicycle to deliver every letter from a stolen sack of mail, in the process becoming both a hunted criminal...

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