The Guffipedia is a “dictionary of business jargon and corporate nonsense”. It is published by the Financial Times newspaper and houses the “finest drivel” from their archive – as well as “fresh twaddle submitted by readers and certified” by Lucy Kellaway.
Category Archives: Monday smiles
Monday smile – Startup-ese
Regular readers will know my fascination with jargon, and when I saw an article about words used by hip young start-ups in The Wall Street Journal the other day, I thought I just had to share it with you. 🙂
Monday smile – Legal challenge over Toblerone chunks?
… Not yet, but maybe soon.
UK consumers are enraged over the increased spaces between Toblerone chunks that have appeared recently. The change is only being applied in Britain at present.
It is being blamed on Brexit or a rise in commodity prices, depending on who you listen to.
Monday smile – Arresting trees
It has been a while since I shared with you a nugget from Kevin Underhill’s fantastic legal humour blog Lowering the Bar.
Are you sitting comfortably?
Monday smile – Book Week
Following last year’s Book Week on the blog – in January – so no rhyme or reason… 😉 today marks the start of five days of posts on books that might interest readers.
Today’s offering was published in 1993 but I think it remains just as much fun – proof of which is that the book is still available. The quality of the drawings goes without saying too – it is filled with work by exceptional cartoonists.
Monday smile – Britishness
A heads-up for anyone who has missed it so far…
This comes from the wonderful Twitter feed VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish.
I love the slogan: “Making life awkward for ourselves, one rainy day at a time”. 🙂
Monday smile – Short-windedness
Just to show us that efforts to reduce jargon and wordiness are not a recent phenomenon…
Monday smile – Mastering the semicolon
… or in other words “From the Venetian Renaissance to the winky-eye emoticon”. 😉
Monday smile – Home truth
Not too much to do with language or law today – apart from perhaps consumer regulations – but *so* true…
See if you agree. 🙂
Monday smile – Making up new words
This morning I have a fun and edifying journey for you, in the form of a TED Talk by Erin McKean, lexicographer and creator of the online dictionary resource Wordnik (see this post about the dictionary on steroids).
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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