Jargon Alert

[justcarol67]

Geoff:
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> Following up your own comment, there has been a lot of joking for 
> some years since the various railway companies in the UK were told
> to refer to passengers as "customers". Quite a few travellers took 
> umbrage about this, commenting that they were not buying things 
> in a shop....
>
Carol responds:

Whereas I have to call customers "clients" when I'm working with A-1 Editing! Everything's a euphemism. And has anyone noticed that car dealers and similar businesses no longer have sales! Nope, it's always an "event." Why, why, why can't we call a spade a spade instead of a garden implement?

Carol, who calls a spade a shovel