Tomorrow will not be 'virtual' but real, special like the voices of a choir in a great cathedral
For someone making Christmas addresses for decades, the Queen of England’s contribution to the lexicon of commonly used phrases has been minimal. But she introduced the term “annus horribilis” when once declaring “1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure”. Should she repeat the phrase during this year’s Christmas speech, drinkers in wet pubs probably won’t exclaim: “She took the words out of my mouth.” But only because wet pubs aren’t open and we have other terms to describe 2020, mostly unprintable in any newspaper. It has been a ghostly year ...
Source: independent.ie