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There’s been a raft of articles recently regarding management-speak and other jargon, which I’ve found vaguely amusing… I’ve lost count of the times I’ve heard bosses talk about “leveraging” and “granularity”. But today, after hearing it *so* many times, I just had to vent my spleen about another piece of mangled English.
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I know we’re a nation of foodies, but some of the terminology really grates, if you’ll pardon the pun. I mean, today’s sandwich menu at work includes “Shaved turkey caesar with rocket”…
…what’s wrong with “turkey salad”? I don’t know about you but the original description is making for some rather unusual mental imagery.
A few other [...]

Following on from this post, and the regular mention of all-noun headlines over at the BBC’s Magazine Monitor, I’ve noticed a marked increase in the number of “verb-ed” nouns.
Just today, I’ve received an email that claims to have “excerpted” a section of another document.
Anyone else got any good examples? I may start collecting them….