Letter: Language of politics
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Seven days of unending coverage of the election has thrown up four words, all new to me. Having looked them up, and challenged myself to produce one sentence to include all four, I came up with: "Discombobulated by the failure of my merkin to achieve its intended effect, on the basis of its picayune deficiencies, I swore to honour the omerta of sexual deviants such as myself."
Can anyone improve on that? And what of next week's obscure words?
DAVID TENCH
Amersham, Buckinghamshire
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