Terms set in ancient stone
Jul 28, 2021
2 minutes
Almost every human activity has its jargon, and much of it is dreadful.
My pursuit, journalism, is not a profession – no qualifications are necessary – but it has a few words and expressions not widely used outside the world of hackery. Most are dull.
Terms such as ‘filing copy’, ‘overmatter’ (the part of an article too long for the allocated space), ‘undermatter’ (the opposite), ‘subs’
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