TY - JOUR T1 - Enormity JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 249 LP - 249 VL - 55 IS - 512 AU - Neville Goodman Y1 - 2005/03/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/55/512/249.abstract N2 - English gains and loses words all the time. It's easy to see where new words come from. We find or invent a thing or idea and need a word. When a thing or idea is discarded or falls into disuse, the word still exists, but dictionaries eventually label it archaic. ‘Governance’ was just such a word, until it was resurrected by big business for ‘corporate governance’, and then purloined by the NHS for ‘clinical governance’, a phrase famously described by one of my colleagues as ‘impossible … ER -