The Plain English Foundation has chosen “a bundle of contractual rights” as its worst words of 2023. This is the phrase Qantas came up with to avoid responsibility for selling cancelled flights. The airline argued it does not actually sell flights, just the right to fly … eventually. Every year, the Foundation gathers dozens of…
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“Integrity issue” named Worst Word or Phrase of 2022
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The Plain English Foundation has chosen “integrity issue” as its worst word or phrase of 2022. This phrase came up when lions escaped their enclosure at Taronga Zoo. Explaining the incident, the zoo said that the fence had an “integrity issue”. While the zookeepers did an excellent job of coaxing the lions back to their…
Primary School Students Gearing up for Word Mania Comp
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Primary schoolers around Australia have clocked up more than two million minutes of word building, in preparation for the July 27 start of national literacy competition LiteracyPlanet Word Mania 2015. LiteracyPlanet CEO, Adam McArthur pointed out that since registrations for the online competition opened in June, children have practiced the popular word building game for…