'lain' English in puzzle
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FIAT sufferer from VAT returns mild ever have imagined that istoms and Excise would win a ize in the national Plain iglish Awards Competition? lying found that about one in ;ht returns received at outhend VAT headquarters ntained avoidable errors, it wned upon that august body at perhaps victims were ghtly confused by
3tructions.
Sir Douglas Lovelock, airman of the board, said: Ve are now making a real Fort to produce literature hich is both and accurate." I suspect that past attempts to oduce "literature" may have en the cause of the trouble. Customs and Excise was one the bodies pilloried by the sin English Campaign founded rChrissie Maher to protect the iblic against unintelligible Dvernment documents. She is ported as saying: "Early this !ar we want to launch a Plain Iglish Union, with a token ibscription, and recruit ousands of members so we we more force when we essu rise authority."
First, however, she should frain from throwing bricks rough her own glasshouse ith pompous, ill-derived words ich as "pressurise" when all le means is "press."