Discussion Forum—A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

Let me translate. The great thing about constitutional crises? The new words you'll hear. A great deal of journalistic lexicography has already gone into prorogue – from, as you have by now no doubt heard, the Latin rogare, to ask – but I am equally impressed by the surfacing of sedition, a marvellously hysterical 19th-century-sounding word. The last time we heard sedition or its adjective, seditious, bandied seriously in public discourse was probably during the Second World War, when people had a fear of alien spies.