Each week here at the Australian Writers’ Centre, we dissect and discuss, contort and retort, ask and gasp at the English language and all its rules, regulations and ridiculousness. It’s a celebration of language, masquerading as a passive-aggressive whinge about words and weirdness. This week, it’s bought vs brought…bring it
You see it in boardrooms across the nation. People marking off words during meetings in a surreptitious game of bullsh*t bingo. They are noting down classic phrases like: “game-changing innovations”, “corporate synergy”, “deep dive”, all while they “incentivise” people to “pick the low-hanging fruit”. In honour of this popular pastime,
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