Jacob Rees-Mogg has issued a 'style guide' to his new ministerial staff, which includes a demand to only use imperial measurements.
The newly minted Commons leader distributed the orders to his office staff, according to ITV.
The guide includes a list of banned words and phrases, including "very", "ongoing", "invest (in schools etc)", "disappointment" and "I note/ understand your concerns."
Meanwhile, new Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has imposed a two page limit on the rail documents he'll be expected to read in his new job.
An internal email seen by the Yorkshire Post saw staff warned Shapps will "pay attention to the font sizes and margins".
Other words on Rees-Mogg's naughty list are "equal", "unacceptable", "speculate" and "no longer fit for purpose."
Staff were also ordered to refer to all non-titled males as "Esq." and to insert a double space after full stops.
And the "honourable member for the 18th Century" demanded staff use imperial measurements - most of which were phased out 50 years ago.
Of course, Rees-Mogg's commitment to archaic weights and measures aren't his only old-fashioned quirks.
He has declared himself "completely opposed" to abortion, including in cases of rape and incest.
He also opposes same-sex marriage, because marriage is a "sacrament."
He said last year: "The teaching of the Catholic church is completely clear. The marriage issue is the important thing. This is not how people arrange their lives.
"It’s that marriage is a sacrament, and a sacrament is under the authority of the church, not of the state."
Parliamentary history geek Mr Rees-Mogg, who even wears a double-breasted suit in family snaps, is the son of a former Times newspaper editor and amassed a vast fortune through his City firm Somerset Capital Management.
He has six eccentrically-named children with his aristocrat wife Helena, whose ancestors include Charles I advisor Thomas Wentworth and former Prime Minister Charles Watson-Wentworth. A painting of his horse hangs in the National Gallery.
Her family inherited the sumptuous stately home Wentworth Woodhouse, which was given a £7.6million repair grant by the Tory government last year despite soaring homelessness.
