There is a word ‘deification’, but there ought to be a homophone, perhaps ‘dayification’, meaning the way daytime television spreads into the evenings.
There is a word ‘deification’, but there ought to be a homophone, perhaps ‘dayification’, meaning the way daytime television spreads into the evenings. There are now only five types of daytime programming apart from films and repeats: chat, quizzes and games, food, auctions and property. I plan to get rich by combining all of them into a daytime pentathlon show, in which contestants will have to confess to standing by their husbands even after they have had sex with goats, know in which Italian city you might find the Leaning Tower of Pisa, knock up saddle of rabbit in a blackcurrant jus with courgette flowers, sell a Victorian coal scuttle for 10 per cent above the reserve price, and finally examine a house on the Algarve, with 3 beds, 2 recep.,
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