I queue in a local One-Stop every Saturday because it is the only place I can use my Saturday only pre-paid collection card for The Guardian. Shops like this have garish counters now, festooned with various kinds of prize lottery tickets, each numbered and behind it an assistant who acts to sell these and pay … More ‘In it to win it’: How did the verb ‘to win’ take on the expression of  magical thinking: ‘The sense of “exert effort” in early Middle English faded into “earn (things of value) through effort”‘