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• The back of the bus…
• Lee Evans
• Pronounce this
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I love this stuff. Those that know me will know that I love to spot mistakes and gleefully point them out, especially in the areas of spelling and grammar. I’m not saying that I don’t make mistakes; I know that I do, but I don’t make them often, and I certainly don’t make the types of mistakes that are listed here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7595509.stm

I agree with most of these. I also agree that our language isn’t a fixed structure, and the notes given in the above article that state accepted uses of some of these grammar anomalies are perfectly acceptable to me.

What isn’t acceptable to me is the continual reference to BBC news style guide. It’s almost as if they are using the existence of this ‘style guide’ as justification for all the horrendous mistakes that their journalists make when ‘writing’ their copy. If they can pass off all of the grammatical errors that litter the news content of the BBC by referring to their style guide, then it must be hundreds of thousands of pages in length.

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