“The Council has not banned any Latin words or phrases. Two years ago, we issued advice to our staff to encourage plain, appropriate and easily-understood language. This includes considering whether or not various phrases, including jargon and Latin, are appropriate for the particular audience that the information is aimed at.”

Forgetting for the moment the matter of Latin, I think the council should spend more of their ratepayer’s money in educating their staff in the correct formation of English prose. If memory serves me, ending a sentence with a preposition is just not done. I would have phrased it as “are appropriate for the particular audience to which the information is aimed” or even better (since we are not shooting the recipients), “are appropriate for the particular audience to which the information is directed”.

Of course, I doubt the Bournemouth ratepayers would wish to fund such language courses as this is the responsibility of the education system, so the more effective action would be to replace the staff with people who can demonstrate satisfactory command of the English language.

Oh, the CAPITALIZATION just seemed to occur whenever a word with a link to Latin appeared. I don’t know how that happened!