When I was a student at Salford Technical College we had a lecturer who tended to mumble and mangle the English language. One rainy lunch time, one of my fellow students sarcastically commented that he couldn't wait for another dose of the lecturer's 'gooder English'. I adopted the expression as a substitute for plain English and use it all the time.

Working in local government you can't escape the passive, report style English that puts up barriers with the public. Such English only reinforces the view that local government is populated with beaurocrats in grey suits. Here are just a few examples: