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Queasing

After last week’s announcement by the Bank of England that it would be introducing ‘quantitative easing’ (which is apparently not the same as just printing money, as they keep pointing out to us), the Times is now attempting to have the phrase shortened to ‘queasing’.

The paper received a letter from a reader who suggested the new term, saying “It is much easier to pronounce and carries with it the slightly queasy feeling that one naturally feels when trying to save the economy from imminent collapse.”

Staff at the Times then submitted a petition to the government via the 10 Downing Street website, calling for the word to be used in all official communications. Unfortunately, the petition was rejected.

However, the paper has now created its own online petition, and is asking for signatories. If you like the sound of the new word, and would like to support the bid to bring it into daily usage, head over to the Times website.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .