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Guru is not usually one to praise any public sector initiative, but full marks to the Local Government Association (LGA) for publishing an annual list of words that shouldn't be used by government bodies. The list of 250 words includes new words such as: trialogue, wellderly, goldfish bowl facilitated conversation, tonality, webinar, under-capacitated...

Guru recently stumbled upon the 'Write your own academic sentence' site which generates random sentences from a list of phrases common in many academic fields. The jargon generator allows you to choose a selection of random words and then creates an impressive sounding but meaningless sentence from them. For example, Guru has created the following...

The lovely people at Office Angels have sent Guru a document containing results of all the surveys and research they conducted over the past year. From what makes office workers tick, to what ticks them off, the document reveals a plethora of useless but not uninteresting stats. Here are Guru's top examples: Almost half of office workers worry whether...