- iconic
- ironically
- carbon footprint
- time poor
- black/Muslim/literary community
- any reference to sex beginning in 1963, in conjunction with Philip Larkin
Untimely cliches banned!
It seems that even the great and good who write for the Times Literary Supplement need to be brought to heel on occasion – their engine room has issued a list of words and phrases that are not to be used in that august organ:
2 comments:
Most of these are over-used and could probably do with being filtered out. "Carbon footprint" seems an odd one to ban though, being a useful phrase in common usage to describe a reasonably complex concept. Surely any article that did need to touch on this concept would simply be rendered unwieldy by having to constantly explain something for which a convenient shortcut already exists?
I don't know for certain, but I imagine they have replaced it with something just as pithy but a little less buzzwordy, such as 'carbon cost'.
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