The Plain English Campaign notes the increasing number of jobs carrying the suffix "officer" in the past 20 years, particularly among public sector workers.

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Steve Jenner, from the Plain English Campaign, said punctuation, including the apostrophe, was one of the basic rules of language and he described the council's decision as "nonsensical".

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Though intelligent, he remains a stranger to grammar and is ridiculed for his mangled syntax (on the morning of his Commons ordeal he was awarded a booby prize by the Plain English Campaign).

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Hitchings nods at Orwell respectfully but still has questions about the campaign for plain English to which the great man contributed so heavily.

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