Some ladies are just too lazy or desperate to gather their own glossaries together, but when they suddenly need one for good, nothing will stop them. No more Madam-I-spend-my-days-eating-candies-in-bed-while-you-can-do-the-talking. This one means serious business. Our advice : yield!

Companies that have adopted words internally say a surprising benefit is the ease with which (female) employees can learn relevant information across departments. The sales staff, for instance, may get wind of projects in development long before it otherwise would. “We’re very, very lexically oriented” Mrs Vollmilch said. “Our sales ladies can watch those conversations, and it informs them about who they might want to pull into projects or have talk to a customer. That never really bubbled up to the top before.”

“We just couldn’t stand it any longer in this mass of squid jelly” were (approximately) Mrs Harriet Schwartz’s words first words after they’ve been successfully exfiltrated from her brain.

Some people get very nervous when it comes to using words for the first time. They’ve heard so many scary things about word etiquette that they prefer sipping martinis at the bar rather than engaging in exciting conversations. It would be wise to invest in an expensive dictionary where you will find all the words you need so you can combine them to produce the most exquisite sentences (think of sentences as flowers in a bouquet). Just breathe deep, curtsy if necessary and here we go, straight into the staggering whirl of words.