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Mind your language.(casualties, numbers game)

Publication: Spectator

Publication Date: 27-AUG-05

Author: Wordsworth, Dot
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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)

I think that, like a hosepipe ban, we might just be spared the permanent establishment of the term 7/7. After all, some people were inexplicably fond of the phrase Y2K, meaning 2000, and it seems as ridiculous now as platform soles for men.

I find 7/7 distasteful. It is non-native, and it makes claims for an event that unfortunately are unlikely to persist....

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