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A day to honour our mothers

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Today is Mother’s Day. Incidentally, it is also this writer’s birthday – the 15th I’ll be celebrating without her in the picture. Which then makes me think of the very meaning of the word – ‘birthday’. Why is it conjoined, when really it ought to be ‘birth day’?

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