Let’s have a workers’ revolution and purge our speech of the word “labo(u)r” and its derivatives, coming as it does from Latin labor. What are the plain, Saxon English alternatives?
Labour (n) = hard work, slog
Labour (v) = work hard, slog, slog away
Labour Day = May day, Workers’ day
The Labour Party = The Workers’ Party
Labour union = workers’ union
Go into labour = begin/start giving birth
Belabour = overwork, overdo, over-egg
Labourer = worker, unskilled worker, hand(y) worker [that is, “manual labourer”]
© 2016 Bryan A. J. Parry
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