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Pulling together to move forward with transparency…

November 22, 2016 By Ellen

And other equally irritating phrases. I was directed, the other day, to John Rentoul’s round up of banned expressions. A splendid celebration of the cliche, the slackardly sayings and the downright nasty newspeak – the kind of phrases that induce indigestion. His streaming heap includes “scalable”, “baby steps” and “scientifically proven”. To his linguistic gravy […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned, rant, The World, words Tagged With: cliches, humour, in the world, language, on my mind, women, words

Stop talking rubbish and mangling our language

May 9, 2016 By Ellen

River Clyde at dusk

If you’re not careful, there’s potench for murder It’s funny how they say that the red mist descends. In my case, it rises, boiling up from the pit of somewhere dark until everything is fury. This week it was a chirpy PR person’s query about whether or not the thing he had just sent me […]

Filed Under: language, other things I have learned, rant Tagged With: grammar, humour, in my life, language, on my mind, rant, things I've learned

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