I’m constantly amazed at the intricacies of our language. Its flexibility and evolution continues to strike me dumb. For example, as soon as a new technology or career emerges, there comes after it a whole new realm of words in which to confound us. Take for example journalism. Not a particularly new career, but it still spawned a whole new load of jargon in which to make people sound a bit more intelligent.

House Style – Could be taken to be the style of the interior of your house, or maybe whether it is terraced, detached, a cardboard box or whatnot. In journalism, it is a sheet for staff and freelance writers with information about which words or spellings the publication prefers.

Consequentially, this publication, my blog space, has no particular house style. There are no preferences. However, my blog is an example of the how words are created by new pastimes, new technologies. Blog itself means web log. Have you ever seen a reference to this in a Dickens novel? English seems a particularly accommodating language, ready to accept new words into its fold. Just look at what the dictionary has included in recent years. “Doh”, “dogging”, “duh brain”. It’s interesting to think how the pace of change will continue; in the next fifty years will the term blog exist? Whatever happens there must always be someone who is in command of some word or term that makes us alien, and therefore reduce us to a shambolic outdated wreck.