The difference between a piggy bank and a matured-but-unredeemed savings bond is simple: you don’t pay taxes when you cash out of the pig. But you’re not earning interest in either place, and holding ...

Not unless she is whisky, cheese or thousand-year eggs. You can say that a person is mature. Or that she has matured. But you can’t say, ‘Anita is matured.’ That’s incorrect. Drop the d. ‘Anita is ...