This episode examines uncommon words for conversations about fixity, exploring their origins and familiar words from the same root. Words featured include intransigent, obdurate, adamantine, indelible, obstinate and irrevocable.
Hear how a wartime survey of buildings at risk of bombing led to Britain's listed building system, granting certain structures legal protection designed to secure their permanence.
Sources:
https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2009/09/crying-over-spilled-milk.html
https://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/abeswlgbt.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/targets-of-enemy-bombers-and-our-own-demolition-men-1598384.html
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/about-the-list/
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