Election Year or Fear!

[Ramshank72]

Agree totally about butchery of both the English language and style of pronunciation (the latter seemingly linked to our diversity / sub cultures)

Americanisms I personally don't like but the English language has constantly evolved by absorbing elements of other languages, so maybe we will just have to accept it for what it is.

However one thing I will never do is "reach out" to anyone. I once responded to an email using this phrase by saying I was reaching back - the sender wanted to know what I meant!

May I "lean in"?

[Andy_Faber]

May I "lean in"?

You've just made me feel slightly ill. One of the best things about my departing the 9 to 5 was leaving such phrases behind.

One fairly senior colleague of mine started to misuse the word 'erstwhile' to mean something like 'an upstanding one of the boys, nudge nudge wink wink he's on our side lads' rather than 'former', and it spread in a few weeks through the senior management team and, much to my amusement, in meetings with outside concerns