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Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.

Thanks to simbosan for the idea

(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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Wellness
Okay, so it apparently does have one or two older appearances in English before it fell into disuse. The Germans (I think - could be other European) re-invented it, and its filtered back into English use somewhat.

That may be, but to me it always sounds like an invented bastardisation of "wellbeing" used as trendy buzzwordy bit of English in mainland Europe.
(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 14:53, 3 replies)
Wellness Centres

(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 14:54, closed)
finally
someone else knows this phrase in it's common (frustrating) usage.
I've lived in European countries close to Germany & Austria for many years and keep coming across this phrase. Does it mean health spa? Does it mean massages?
Who the flip knows?
(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 15:12, closed)
On holiday in Croatia last year
our hotel had a wellness centre. What the f...? It was a spa - massages, sauna, steam room - that kind of carry on. Jesus.
(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 15:54, closed)

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