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“Daddy, what is Maureen?”

“You mean Maureen the midwife?”

“No, Maureen in the swimming pool?”

“I don’t remember a Maureen from the swimming pool.”

“No, Maaaawreeeen, that gets the germs away…”

We had a protracted discussion yesterday about the merits and demerits of chlorine. I’m still not sure how we got from chlorine to Maureen – but couldn’t we all start slipping a little toddler rhyming slang into our everyday speech?