Bill Jamieson - Look back in wonder at the 'nice' decade's lexicon

SO the "nice decade" is over and a not-so-nice era has begun. Thus warns Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, and he should know.

So it seems appropriate at this pivotal time that a lexicon be compiled of the words and terms that came to characterise the nice decade and which are now fast falling from everyday use. Indeed, some words may disappear altogether. Those con...