I AGREE heartily with everything Edith Parsons says (Oxford Mail, November 14, Our Language Fades Away).
The English language is being eroded for the sake of ‘convenience’, known when I was at school as ‘laziness’!
So many inaccuracies now appear to be standard.
The inappropriate apostrophe is annoying and confusing, for example ‘Senior Citizen’s Lunch’.
Which senior citizen would that be, and how does one apply?
The dotted capital I and the random mixture of upper and lower case letters in the same word is intolerable.
If the rules of the language are not observed, soon there will be as many Englishes as people and nobody will understand anyone else.
Has anyone noticed the glaring spelling mistake on the kiosk for the sightseeing bus in Gloucester Green?
It has been there for years. Nobody seems to care!
SUSANNA CONSTABLE, Kennington Road, Kennington
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