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(), sub-titled "Will

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be the death of

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?", was published in 1974. In the book Newman "skillfully skinned contemporary written and spoken English", pointing out how the language of

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had degenerated at the hands of business and politicians, becoming choked with "banalities, cliches, pomposities, redundancies and catchphrases".

References

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