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COMMENTARY
Droning on . . . about words
Word association test:
Drone.
Did you think of a honeybee, specifically one of those lazy bees with nothing to do but hang out with the queen bee? Probably not. An unmanned aircraft flew into your thoughts. Am I right?
Not to overlook the verb drone. But we live in a soundbite world. Droning is rare. Even preachers aren’t allowed to drone if they want to keep their jobs. O…