Showing posts with label FMCG. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FMCG. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

English vs ENG-glish Lesson #1: Kaboom

Every profession has jargon. Engineering and FMCG have some gems that are worth sharing.

English:
Bomb = Device that goes KABOOM in cartoons.

ENG-glish:
BOM = Bill of Material. This acronym is actually used in sentences like “Please explode the BOM so that I can see how much perfume needs to be added per ton of shampoo?” Cracked me up when I heard this for the first time. Cracked me up even more to realise that everyone else now found this phrase perfectly normal.