A look at the Plain English Campaign awards (see ) for this year, where they awarded their Golden Bull booby prize to the Meteorological Office's description "probabilities of precipitation" instead of discussing whether "rain is likely" has got me thinking.
What would be your nominations of 'gobbledygook' used that you've encountered so far this year ?
Mine would be :-
a)
Cambridgeshire Police to residents that "there are 'Others' watching who is not locking thir car car" and urged them to "rember" to inform neighbours if they planned to go away."
November 2011
b)
The Northern Ireland Civil Service for its instructions on how staff should take a half day holiday, "If the annual leave request that you are entering is less than a full day on the First Day or the Last Day, then please select Hours from the drop down list of values in the Part Days Unit of Measure field. Then select the amount of hours absent on the first day in the Fraction of Start Date field or the last day in the Fraction of End Date field. If the absence is only for one day, use the Fraction of Start Date field to record the hours absent."
January 2011
Over to you
Sex God
