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A plea for simplicity...to rediscover what plain English can do.

I've just spent two years working in the public sector dealing with a baffling array of language. Nouns that became verbs and then swapped back again, strange new isms, using at least four or five words where one is quite sufficient.

I always found it amazing that organisations that waffled on about something called diversity and inclusion - don't ask - used language that the average Joe couldn't understand.

Even worse, they expected me to write that stuff too.

So this is an occasional blog, dedicated to the plain daft as well as the frustrating. Like the woman who once asked me where she could "source" some water - I should have pointed to the ground, or the time that I learned that I lived near something called a "rural hub".

Every so often I'll give you some bits of jargon, together with their plain English equivalent. Or I'll just rant. We'll see what happens. Send me your own examples. Together we might just make the world a simpler and better place.

Will