words.

    ‘While English spreads across the globe, the language itself is shrinking. Vast numbers of new words enter it every year, but our children’s and leader’s vocabularies are getting smaller…  You write for your audience and your audience knows fewer and fewer words than it used to and hasn’t time to look up unfamiliar ones. The language of politics is tuned to the same audience and uses the same media to reach it, so it too diminishes year by year’ (Don Watson’s Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language, p.4)