Is it just me who felt a tad uncomfortable reading the news that UK councils have been asked to cut back on inter-department superfluous jargon?

I positively cringed as the BBC correctly translated that a ‘coterminous, stakeholder engagement’ was, in fact, a pompously-inflated-polysyllabic euphemism for ‘having a chat…’

Here are some of the worst offenders:

• Benchmarking
• Bleeding-edge
• Blue-sky
• Diarise
• Futureproof
• Going forwards/moving forward
• Leverage
• Liaise
• Thinking outside the box
• Ubiquitous
• Utilise
• World-leading

Dave Fleet also has a fantastic list of his top 10 most irritating phrases in PR.