Virginia Plain Virginia Plain "Virginia Plain" is a song by English rock band Roxy Music, released as their debut single in August 1972. Written by Roxy frontman Bryan Ferry, the song was recorded by the band in July 1972 at London's Command Studios. Backed with "The Numberer", an instrumental composed by Andy Mackay, as a single the song became a Top 10 hit in the UK, peaking at number four. The song was not included on the band's original UK debut album, "Roxy Music", having not even been recorded when the album was released. After the success of the album in the
Plain English a slim paperback "Plain Words, a guide to the use of English" in 1948, followed by a sequel "The ABC of Plain Words" in 1951, and a hardback book combining the best of both, "The Complete Plain Words", in 1954 – which has never been out of print since. Gowers argued that legal English was a special case, saying that legal drafting: However, there is a trend toward plainer language in legal documents, and the 1999 "Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts" regulations mandate "plain and intelligible" language. In the UK, Plain English Campaign has been campaigning since 1979 "against gobbledygook,