Low rent
Rental properties are hard to come by in the UK. And apparently some landlords have taken this as an opportunity to cherry-pick
applicants. For shame. (whatever)
Any agent that lists on Zoopla must abide by both its code of conduct and the law and the website recommends agents use "inclusive language and avoid marketing homes as unsuitable for a certain type of renter", it said.
Alison Benjamin and Harriet Agerholm, BBC News
Inclusive language? For a rental ad? It may sound like DEI/flap‑flap‑flap bullshit, but it actually means no disfavour towards all the peeps with kidzes 'n' katzes.
I just hate the phrase, not because I favour exclusion, I don't, but all this inclusive language
nonsense sounds totally precious and gay. The sort of thing that drips mither about on social media; ineffectual corporate nonentities discuss earnestly during ineffectual internal meetings, telling themselves that was a good meeting
; and taxpayers' money is wasted on in local government.
- taxpayer | ˈtakspeɪə | noun
- a person who pays taxes: a basic rate taxpayer | a waste of taxpayers' money | the trial cost the taxpayer more than £7,000.
Is taxpayer a collective noun or not? Should the plural possessive be taxpayer's
or taxpayers'
? I'm a taxpayer, but the taxpayer is often used to represent taxpayers as a collective, suggesting the plural possessive to be taxpayer's
. The dictionary seems to be fairly ambivalent to this question: if the trial cost the taxpayer more than £7,000
, then it was the taxpayer's money that was wasted, not the taxpayers'. I guess it depends on whether or not you use the definitive article. Hey ho. (shrug)