plain English
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plain English (uncountable)
English that does not use any jargon or technical / scientific terminology.
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Above: London photographer Abi Campbell’s L-shaped kitchen has a Carrara-marble counter and Plain English cabinets that end in a glass-doored pantry.
A few of years back an organization campaigning for plain English issued its list of the most clichéd clichés.
Gowers (1954), p. 1 A substantive objection by Vallins to "the cult of 'plain English'" was his view that verbose phrases lose important nuances when reduced to plain words.
Lutz was also the former editor of the now defunct Quarterly Review of Doublespeak, which examines ways that jargon has polluted the public vocabulary with phrases, words and usages of words designed to obscure the meaning of plain English.
J.A. Hammerton, Outline of Great Books, New York, Wise & Co., 1937 The Reverend John Smith (later the Rector of St Mary the Virgin in Baldock ) was then engaged to transcribe the diaries into plain English.
Attendees will hear directly from a Department of Justice's Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section Prosecutor explaining the CFAA in plain English and breaking down the process for deciding whether to bring charges in federal hacking cases.