I’ve been thinking about the use of various words of late.<\/p>\n
One of the reasons for doing so is because I spent a couple of days during this month at a language school to the South of Madrid:<\/p>\n
I was talking to some of the students about Cockney Rhyming slang,
\nand aspects of the everyday use of the various languages which one hears within London.<\/p>\n
Now I discover that the British Local Government Association Here is an example of just what is to be found within this list:<\/p>\n – Baseline – starting point<\/p>\n – Customer – people\/person<\/p>\n – Outsourced – privatised<\/p>\n – Rationalisation – cut<\/p>\n – Revenue Streams – money.<\/p>\n – Slippage – delay.<\/p>\n – Thinking outside of the box – Why use at all?<\/p>\n It’s refreshing to read that at long last there is an attempt to curtail the use of so many of these detested corporate terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been thinking about the use of various words of late. One of the reasons for doing so is because I spent a couple of days during this month at a language school to the South of Madrid: I was talking to some of the students about Cockney Rhyming slang, and aspects of the everyday … Continue reading Words.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nhas produced a list of:
\n200 words and phrases<\/a> that all public sector bodies should avoid when talking to people about the work they do and the services they provide.<\/p>\n