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Officials’ secret acts

Why do civil servants have designations with the word ‘secretary’ in them? It is more than a British legacy. It is a legacy we adopted readily. The Latin root is ‘secretus’, meaning to set apart and keep withdrawn or hidden. ‘Secret’, ‘secretary’ and ‘secretariat’ have the same etymology. A civ ....Read more

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