Bad repetition often occurs when the writer is struggling to get their message across.

I want to look at a feature of English that international speakers of English always have trouble with – uncountable nouns.

Here are 3 words I think could be sending the wrong message when used in emails.

It's worth reading as a textbook example of how not to write an apology.

In February 2016, Stephen Hull, the editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post UK was asked in a radio interview why he doesn’t pay his writers.

Someone forwarded me this piece of buzzword-addled blather, which had arrived in his inbox:

A rather dull blog post blown up and mounted onto a poster for the commuters of Harpenden to ignore after a hard day's bonus-chasing in the City.

We just rediscovered this fabulous barrage of bollocks in the Doris and Bertie swipefile of corporate tommyrot.

This is what passes for “insight” at “the trusted advisor to the world's leading businesses, governments, 
and institutions”

Remember: an apology’s about the other person, not you.

The first rule of breaking bad news?

Are you good at shaping new initiatives in the front of funnel?

Want to know what’s the worst thing about this new “market place” for education?

A reader forwarded me this wonderfully bad piece of HR-speak, which had landed in his inbox:

For your amusement - some bits and bobs that entertained us while we were out and about.

Expressing yourself clearly in a foreign language is hard enough, but how about expressing yourself clearly while also not offending anyone

Most large organisations have at least one set of guidelines for writers.

I particularly like that first sentence. It's 100 words long and the verbal equivalent of a Möbius strip.

If anything, the rename has increased the chances of mis-selling.

The phrase “advise and revert” is not standard English.