Words and phrases you only see in news articles and mags.

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..and never hear people use in real life.

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Oh! Yes, I expect there are. But my point was more about people who are a bit nonplussed about something being described on SM as "fuming". So many clickbait headlines for stories that turn out be nothing.

Elevate

Flaunt shapely pins. (Or, if you are fat in a fat way, rather than a bootylicious way, you are 'unapologetically flaunting')

Alas. Only lawyers in court (and Boris Johnson) say it out loud.

People flocking somewhere, like they did to the beaches in 2020, and millions flocked to
Cornwall to see the eclipse in 1999.

Traffic signals. They’re only called that in the Highway Code. Everyone calls them traffic lights.

abode - instead of house/home.

One of my faves from the habit of needing to keep tabloid headlines short is the use of "sir" as a shorthand for a male teacher - as in "sir in gym-cupboard romp with busty caretaker".

And old-fashioned now but hospital press-releases seemed to use "poorly" when referring to someone's condition, which I always found very strange if it was following an accident or incident.

Honourable mention to "slammed", as in "BBC slammed for presenter FAILING TO WEAR A POPPY shame!!!1"

Amid / Amidst

Dossier, as in information

It’s all the hysterical over-stating of a normal reaction or the amplifying a minor incident which irritates me most. I hate tabloid and journo-speak.

Slammed/shamed = lightly criticised by some holier-than-thou journalists

Rampage = someone knocked over a flowerpot

‘Calls for’ as in ‘there have been calls for’ x thing to happen = literally no one cares or has said a word about it. I find that the most annoying.

‘Showcasing’ or ‘flaunting’ - used to describe famous women often just wearing clothes or doing something ordinary.

Calling hair locks. Fgs.

So and so sends temperatures soaring.
Usually accompanied by someone wearing very little.

Jaunt for any kind of trip that's not going to a funeral

Soaring. Usually referring to temperatures, or costs.
Misery. Hot weather "misery", which keeps Mumsnet happy.
Price war. Petrol prices, where one retailer is one penny cheaper than another, and the base prices are still very high indeed.

'bikini clad' to describe a woman in swimwear on the beach. Ugh makes me cringe.

I used to write for a local newspaper and loved throwing in a few standard journo phrases. Favourites included:

“In a bid to…” (which just meant “to” basically).

Council chiefs.

Bosses at firms…

Boffins if you had a science story.

Thieves, who were often as not callous or heartless.

And there was as PP said a lot of fury and fuming and calls for stuff to be ditched or etc.

Kris Jenner was repeatedly described as " continues to flaunt her £10000000 face-lift"- its not as if she could leave it at home with a saucer of milk!

Oh and ‘backlash’ to describe a few semi-literate posts on X about something no-one will remember tomorrow.

“Police swoop” - they just turn up. “Tributes pour in” - no they don’t - a few people mention their sorrow when someone dies.

My particular favourite - in the same vein - TV news reporters standing outside a building in the dark where something has happened and stating that they are “reporting live from the scene” and nothing is actually happening and they could do the same thing from a studio.

Oh come on, these are great! Slightly Bertie Wooster with a touch of Thomas Hardy, love it

Fell pregnant is a very common phrase used in normal conversation.

Tbf, DH still refers to "courting me".I feel like I have escaped from an Austen novel.

In the same vein- TV reporters reporting from a flooded area standing in the flood water which the emergency services have advised the public not to go into .

The other thing you used to see in the tabloids was "X, who is a blatant homosexual..." . Straight people were never described as blatant

“Trained officers” attended the scene

i should fucking hope so

Similarly, "qualified nurse".

Um.... if s/he is not registered with the NMC they are on VERY dodgy ground. Calling yourself a registered nurse if you are not is illegal and there is a bill going through Parliament to do the same for the title of "nurse".

I do get wound up by support workers and HCAs calling themselves nurses.

Welcomed for gave birth
Passed for died
Sizzled in a barely there bikini for wore a bikini