If I had diktats I'd keep them well hidden. Didn't it hurt when you had them done?

...joining Jackie in the gutter, are we?

But seriously, folks, I feel Weldon's pain. Often there is no time to clean up copy. Now, speaking off-thread, I do some part-time editing work for a website manufacturer (as it were) and they pretty much give me free rein. However, they describe what I edit as "verbage." Please, whence this word?? I can't help but see the similarity to "garbage."