This article explores problems with the trend of business language making its way into schools and provides strategies for how to address this issue.

Embracing the dynamic nature of English language can help students learn more about all forms of English. To fully engage students, teachers should not adhere to an anachronistic and static view of English. Instead, they must acknowledge, accept, and even use different language forms within the classroom to make that classroom dynamic, inclusive,…

Cites examples of recent changes in language and suggests what forces are at work to produce language change. (DD)

Provides examples of ways in which the linguistic environment is constantly changing. (DD)

Describes how many of the phrasings attacked by cliche-hunters as trite, worn-out, or unoriginal can be legitimately defended on other grounds, by the criteria of speed and clarity, familiarity, social bonding, and personal delight. (CRH)