George Orwell claimed in his 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language” that English was in a bad way: common consensus (which he was satirizing) held “that any struggle against the abuse of ...

Apparently, some governments, corporations and pressure groups try to avoid saying exactly what they mean. They use language selected for its favourable connotations and make determined efforts to ...

Politicians are engineering language for their own purposes. We need to watch out, Unspeak author Steven Poole, tells Rosita Boland In one of his less forgettable comments following 9/11, George Bush ...

In this collection of his language commentaries over the past half-decade, linguist Geoffrey Nunberg notes a few terms of slang that enjoy news-surges ("under the bus"), but generally discusses more ...

THE author Steven Poole, a writer for The Guardian in Britain, is weary of the waves of gobbledegook sweeping the world and has lashed out in a book, Unspeak, which should be compulsory reading for ...

A Place for What We Lose: A Daughter’s Return to Tule Lake ...

There’s a growing genre of nonfiction that could be called “lefty paranoia about the evil brilliance of the right,” in There’s a growing genre of nonfiction that could be called “lefty paranoia about ...

According to Steven Poole, we live in an age in which language is being increasingly bled of its proper meaning. At the same time, phrases are constantly passing into circulation whose surface ...