Say what you like about British Prime Minister Boris Johnson – and I’ve said a lot that is not complimentary – but his Oxford University education has given him an impressive vocabulary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In an interview this week about shortages in the British marketplace, he commented: \u201cIf I may say so, the great hecatomb of pigs that you describe has not yet actually taken place. Let\u2019s see what happens.\u201d This is the Prime Minister, playing down fears of a mass culls of pigs at farms because of a lack of abattoir workers and doing so with a word not on the lips of every member of the electorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In ancient Greece or Rome, the term hecatomb referred to any great public sacrifice and feast, originally one in which 100 oxen were sacrificed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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