And now, from the “dumbest thing I’ve read today” file:
Bournemouth Council, which has the Latin motto Pulchritudo et Salubritas – beauty and health – has listed 19 terms it no longer considers acceptable for use.
They include ad hoc, bona fide, status quo, vice versa and even via.
Its list of alternatives includes ‘for this special purpose’, in place of ad hoc and ‘existing condition’ or ‘state of things’, instead of status quo.
Look sometimes there is a bare minimum requirement. If you claim to speak English, you have to know some of the “foreign” words that English has eaten up. Not knowing them means you have work to do, not that everyone else should drop them.
I’m already annoyed with people who think kudo is the singular of kudos, and who don’t know what “indices” means, so imagine what I think about that story.
