<<I've been disgusted with the bulk of the US press for years for their borderline illiteracy, thoroughgoing innumeracy, and ill acquaintance with logic. And they're the "professionals".>>
I echo this sentiment. I suppose it comes from a grammar school education and being picky about speling. I am frequently offended particularly in the public domain. Shop signs : videos's, box's - get my goat up. These folks just don't know any better. But newspapers and online news services? What are they teaching our kids? Where are these "writers" recruited from? Fair makes my blood boil, it does. Grrrrr! Rant over. BTW, I do realise that some of my written grammar is not technically perfect (ending sentences in "from?"; however I follow conventions and believe that spelling and use of the correct words are building blocks. Peter
