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Acronyms old and new

As with jargon, there’s no problem if everybody else knows what you mean. For example, in the United Kingdom (UK) you can use the acronyms UK, EU and USA without …

Flowery is not your friend

‘Plain English’ sounds like an easy thing to achieve. Just use normal words. But in practice it’s much harder than that. We looked at how jargon and acronyms can worm …