New words often disappear before they have a chance of making it into the
mainstream dictionaries. But you can easily keep up with the pace of linguistic
development with Michael Quinion鈥檚 excellent World Wide Words site
(http://www.quinion.demon.co.uk/words), which neatly fills the gap.
Among the entries are 鈥減rebuttal鈥濃�攁n electioneering term that means
getting your retaliation in first鈥攁nd 鈥淐ool Britannia鈥�, the buzz phrase
that the modernising Labour government is using to repackage the nation鈥檚 image.
The Tories鈥� idea of the national image was to refer to 鈥淕reat Britain PLC鈥�.
