Upscrewing the English language

on the BBC by people who should know better:

Another discussion about 24 hour news, and Radio 5 Live morning presenter Victoria Derbyshire this week asked whether people preferred an ‘upsum’ of news.

And this morning on the Week in Westminster Dawn Butler MP said ‘upskilling’.

There is a difference between a language evolving and what Orwell would have labelled ‘manifestly barbaric’, and upscrewing the English language in this manner is the latter.  Both should have their legs slapped and be sent to bed without any tea.