[Lilly]

Originally Posted by West Ender

I am more irritated by the atrocious grammar than spelling mistakes. Even the so-called "quality" newspapers don't seem to have a proper grasp of punctuation. I always understood that, at least, A level English was a requirement for a career in journalism. It seems like many journalists today barely scraped a grade C in GCSE.

I agree and this really winds me up. Once upon a time you only usually saw these errors on the signs of cheapo shops and market stalls/cafes. Now they're all over. I have spotted them in newspapers, books, birthday cards and on the television. Vauxhall had a big advert in the Telegraph and it was plastered all over their showroom in Blackburn. It was advertising the cars they sell and stated in big letters,
ASTRA'S, CORSA'S, VECTRA'S. How can they make mistakes like this?
How are we to teach our children the correct way when all around us we see blatant errors like these? I remember the Iceland slogan that when it first came out said 'That's why mum's go to Iceland'. I thought 'Mum's what goes to Iceland?' People complained and it was corrected but why did it go out like that in the first place?
Punctuation, spelling and grammar don't even seem to matter in the exams and I think this is ludicrous! As long as you get your point accross to the examiner reading your paper they will not knock off marks for incorrect spelling,punctuation etc. Well they should knock marks off and it does matter!