Sarchasm - The gap between the author of acid wit and the person who doesn't get it.

Seattle size - the point in its growth when a company ceases to be seen as cuddly capitalism and becomes a target for anti-globalisation protestors.

Slag wellies - Thigh-high boots, usually seen in home counties towns around midnight.

Snoutcasts - the desperate groups of nicotine addicts seen outside the doors of the ever increasing number of smoke free buildings.

Solution - a perfectly decent word which has been warped in the fun house mirror of corporospeak and is now as ubiquitous (and meaningless) as quality. Many businesses use it to describe their products: thus, a roof becomes a "roofing solution" (roof plus guttering); presumably a wank is a handjob solution. More recently there has been a move to verbify it. Now people talk of "solutioning a problem."

Stepford workers - corporate clones, microserfs. People who have been molded into what their companies want them to be - and achieved total buy in