Is the boss a flench or a pubolitionfuhrer?

HAS the Soucher flench on the desk been getting you down with his buckleisms in the ashpoint? Maybe your boss is a pubolitionfuhrer, or perhaps that sneakacino has caused a mochamess.

Confused? The Lexicon of Neologisms, a dictionary of freshly minted words, should help. The book reveals that a soucher is somebody who works south of the river and a flench is an annoying work colleague who makes nonsensical statements (buckleisms) in the ashpoint (smoking room at work). A pubolitionfuhrer is a boss who hands out work just as the pub beckons, a sneakacino is the coffee you sneaked out of the office for and a mochamess is what you get when you spill the drink on your keyboard.

The dictionary, to be launched in October, is designed to lead the bewildered through the minefield of modern speech.

Compilers collected the latest phrases from the fast-evolving worlds of business, finance and law. Responses flooded in from graduates, lawyers, workers in media, financial companies and even the Department of Health.

A spokesman for etc.venues, a provider of meetings, training and events space which compiled the dictionary, said: "Communication becomes an intricate game of nuance, punctuation and emphasis. It was because of this that the idea came about to create words to form part of the Lexicon of Neologisms."

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