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Craig Brown
English journalist
Today's Telegraph readers hate new words and expressions such as stakeholder and no problem and tasking, just as the great Samuel Taylor Coleridge was driven mad ("vile and barbarous!'') by a horrible new word which had just come on to the scene. That word was talented.
The Daily Telegraph, March 3, 2007
Posted on March 5, 2007

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