Letter: Mouthed to death

P. R. Millest
Thursday 03 April 1997 23:02 BST
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Sir: Who invents those absurd, meaningless, ungrammatical words and phrases - zero tolerance, level playing fields, sleaze, smart money, taxbreak, spin doctors?

They get taken up and mouthed to death. Perhaps the chief culprit is the erstwhile "squeaky clean" BBC. We need a new campaign to clean up or purify the English language.

P R MILLEST

Beaminster

Dorset

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