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  • We have probably all been in a situation when we know have behaved badly towards someone , but pride has made us slow to apologise . As the British pop singer Elton John put it on one of his songs , it is often the case that „ sorry seems to be the hardest word.“
    Of course when we do manage to make a sincere apology -it can quickly reduce the hurt or resestment felt by the person we have behaved badly towards. In the words of the Canadian cartoonist Lynn Johnston “An apology is the superglue of life-it can repair just about anything“.
    However a recent survey suggests that in Britain the word „sorry“ is being used in various situations where it doesn’t have the traditional purpose of expressing regret for something a person has said or done. Arguably, the word is now being overused and might even be in danger of losing its meaning .
    Based on a sample of 1,100 people, the survey produced the statistic that the average British person will say sorry almost 2 million times in his or her lifetime . It found that on many occasions people use the word „sorry“ to tell others that they don’t have time to say or do something that was said („Sorry what was that?“) or for( „exuse me“) when they want to get someone’s attention („Sorry, have you got the time?“)
    Almost 20% of a British person’s apologies are made to strangers, only 8% are made to friends and 14% to work collagues.
    Sociologists have tried to explain these seemingly unnessesary apologies but unfortunately there is no space here to go into their theories in any depth.
    Most people interviewed for the survey also felt that „sorry“ is too often used in a flippant way as an attempt to reduce, another person’s displeasure, but without any intention of addressing the source of the problem.
    One possible conclusion , therefore ,is that while the quantity of apologies heard in Britain could be reduced, the degree of sincerity behind them needs to be increased.
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