Mind your language if you want to avoid a ‘right old stew’
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Mind your language if you want to avoid a ‘right old stew’

Jane Bates Ophthalmic nurse, Hampshire

‘Bad luck!’ I said to the waiter, who was not a native English speaker. I was grovelling on the floor, picking up pieces of shattered glass after he had knocked over a champagne flute.

Nursing Standard. 33, 7, 12-12. doi: 10.7748/ns.33.7.12.s8

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