A BBC expert on hospital closures. Perhaps he needs a vocabulary transplant.

Yes. I noticed another recent trend: using 'carnage' when they merely mean 'chaos'. I guess they never use dictionaries these days.

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And so its been throughout the ages.

When and if Harry Rednapp becomes the England Football Manager (this summer, as predicted by many), people will rightly ask - 'Why don't we have an English speaking manager?'

Yes, I've moaned about the 'Look...' conceit before. It's worst with Miliband, because it makes him appear like a precociously pompous 6th Former: 'Look,' he says, sighing, eyes rolling upwards, his mouth twisted into a slightly exasperated smile, as though, for the upteenth time, he's telling young Smith from the 4th Form where the lavatories are. 'Look...' I'm surprised interviewers like Paxman and Neil don't pick them up on it, but maybe they've stopped listening. There's also some woeful jargon being passed off as normal parlance: I heard one reporter, with a straight face, talk about 'weaponisation' the other day. I suspect people with tiny vocabularies - viz: most TV reporters - get dazzled by such jargon.

Prunella Minge wrote:
I'm surprised interviewers like Paxman and Neil don't pick them up on it

I heard one reporter, with a straight face, talk about 'weaponisation' the other day

These blokes never pick up interviewees on syntactical/grammatical matters; they concentrate on what is being said - and your straight faced reporter talked about weaponization, a word in the dictionary and in common use.

Ida wrote:
Prunella Minge wrote:
I'm surprised interviewers like Paxman and Neil don't pick them up on it

I heard one reporter, with a straight face, talk about 'weaponisation' the other day

These blokes never pick up interviewees on syntactical/grammatical matters; they concentrate on what is being said - and your straight faced reporter talked about weaponization, a word in the dictionary and in common use.

Plenty of jargon and silly neologisms are in dictionaries, yes, you tiresome troll, but that wasn't my point - I think you'll find 'look' is in the dictionary, too - have a look.