Posts Tagged: US English

What are suds doing on the menu?

I was checking out a wine bar on-line that was running a wine tasting (of Hunter Valley Semillons, btw). Out of curiosity, I looked up their wine list and right at the end of the 20 pages (well of course) there was a tiny selection of beers and non-alcoholic drinks. The beers were called suds. […]

Psychobabble—mental health jargon10/09/2026
Psychobabble is psychological jargon used inaccurately and pretentiously that sometimes normalises unacceptable behaviour or criticises normal behaviour. It is also known as therapy-speak or pop psychology. A more specialised branch of psychobabble is neurobabble. It is the vocabulary of the consulting room that has escaped into everyday conversation—trauma, triggered, boundaries, validation, gaslighting. It turns the… Read more: Psychobabble—mental health jargon
Meeting behaviours04/09/2026
Australian professionals are experienced and well-educated yet put them in meetings with clear objectives, agendas to address, or problems to solve and peculiar behaviours start to manifest. The Ringelmann effect suggests that the more people in a meeting the less value they contribute. Max Ringelmann discovered in the 1880s that as more people pulled on… Read more: Meeting behaviours
Danish and “Viking marketing”24/08/2026
In AD 793 the Viking Age was kicked off when Viking raiders attacked Lindisfarne, an island off the northeast coast of England, plundered its Christian monastery, killed or enslaved the monks and appropriated its religious treasures. The Vikings were undoubtedly accomplished shipbuilders, sailors and traders, but their economic model was simpler—to leverage the quality of… Read more: Danish and “Viking marketing”

What are suds doing on the menu?