Romps, Tots and Boffins: The Strange Language of News by Robert Hutton

Romps, Tots and Boffins: The Strange Language of News

Robert Hutton

144 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

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A funny and irreverent annotated collection of "journalese"--words, phrases, clich s, and sacred cows beloved by newspapers but never used by anyone else. This "bumper crop" of examples is sure to "fuel controversy." Anyone who has picked up a pap...

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