Apologies
Apologies
· 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
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