The Plain English Campaign (PEC) is a commercial editing and training firm based in the United Kingdom.
[9] PEC is often described in the media as a pressure group,[10] and regularly makes public comments about language-related news stories, particularly jargon.
[12] The year before, it mocked signs put up by police in Hertfordshire that warned the public not to commit crime.
[17] PEC has been criticised by writer Oliver Kamm, who wrote: "The joke – not that it's funny – is that a body ostensibly concerned with clarity of language is both incompetent in its own use of English and heedless of the task it sets itself.
A Met Office spokesman said: "Precipitation covers a wide range of stuff falling from the sky including rain, sleet, snow, hail, drizzle, and even cats and dogs – but sums it up in just one word.