‘Safety’ Is the Worst Word in the English Language

The Twitter Files prove it.

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The word “safety,” in the abstract, is no better or worse than any other. The dictionary tells us it means “the condition of being protected from or unlikely to cause danger, risk, or injury.”

It derives from the Middle English saufte, from the Old French sauvete, from the medieval Latin salvitas, and from the Latin salvus.

Rich Lowry

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Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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