Graeme Whitfield has published the first edition of his “Journalese-English Dictionary” on his Newscastle Journal blog.
Among the clichéd terms of journalists’ jargon that the Journal’s assistant news editor skewers are: “tot”, “slammed”, “ace”, “quizzed” and my personal favourite, “fury”.
Does anyone other than journalists actually use any of these terms?
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