Download or read book The Banned List written by John Rentoul and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bad English, as George Orwell argued so eloquently over 60 years ago, is a sign of laziness, sloppy thought or insincerity. Yet why is it then that so many of us remain in thrall to cliches, stale idioms and empty phrases when it comes to expressing ourselves.