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Word for Wednesday: Bed

It’s midweek again and most of us will be yearning for that elusive weekend lie-in tucked cozily between our bed sheets, and with the colder months fast approaching that luxury will be ever more tempting. I think it’s a safe bet that we all use the word ‘bed’ every day without fail. Even if we simply mean ‘to go to sleep’ rather than to retire to a comfortable mattress; we’ll most likely use the word ‘bed’ when sleep is beckoning. The word ‘bed’ originates from the Proto-Germanic: ‘badja’ meaning a ‘sleeping place dug in the ground’ – sounds very macabre, but the word originally referred to a garden-plot: a place for plants to ‘sleep’. Now if that doesn’t make you grateful of your comfo...

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