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Just like fashions, popular expressions come and go and 2017’s word of the year – or, being pedantic, words of the year – has just been announced as ‘fake news’. Popularised by the US President Donald Trump who accused it of influencing elections, fake news is defined as ‘false, often sensational, information disseminated under the guise of news reporting’. The phrase has risen by 365 percent since 2016 and its number one spot means it will be included in the next print edition of Collins Dictionary.

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There was much jubilation in the Words etc offices when we learned our resident copywriter Melanie Silver has been shortlisted in the Business Services category of the Business Women of the Year Awards 2017. A glass or two of wine may have been consumed and Winston, the office guard dog, enjoyed a celebratory treat.

Melanie set up Words etc Limited in 1996 after a successful career in marketing for well-known companies including DHL and Forte Hotels.

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