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It's all about business jargon and the strange phrases we use at work.
Hello and welcome to Learning English for Work and our special series all about jargon.
I'm Phil and I'm Pippa.
In this series we've been talking about some of the strange words and phrases we use at work,
business jargon.
As we've mentioned in the series, lots of people find jargon annoying or difficult to understand.
So today we're going to look more at why we use jargon and whether it's helpful in our working lives.
Find a transcript for this episode to read along on our website bbclearningenglish.com.
Now, we made a programme all about jargon with our colleagues at Business Daily,
a BBC World Service business series.
Their reporter, Ed Butler, spoke to Anna Maloney,
a journalist at the London Financial Newspaper, Citi AM.
And Anna's been writing a new column, highlighting a different piece of corporate jargon each week.
So Anna, let's just pick up the paper.
So what have we got here?