The staff at The Park’s Month Without Metaphor initiative (MonthWithoutMetaphor) has been working hard all month to gather the words and phrases that journalists and readers across The Park have submitted as items they’d like to ban from media in 2019. Director Priscilla Weevil says she was “gobsmacked” by the sheer number of submissions and the “intensity of emotion” that accompanied those submissions.
“There is clearly, across all media, the feeling that we are not serving our audience well,” she said.
Below are the most frequently-submitted words and phrases that Month Without Metaphor received:
