I don't think that sloppy speech helps either. Where has "th" disappeared to, to be replaced by "v". Every time I ring my doctor I get a recorded message - "please stay on the line and we will be WIV you shortly". My blood pressure has spiked before I even get to speak to the receptionist! I was asked recently by a young man on a part-time course at a local college to read through the draft of an essay he had written (about fishing, which is probably why he asked me!). I had to tell him that, with the poor spelling, punctuation and grammar, he would probably lose a lot of marks, and I offered to help him re-write it. "Oh, it's ok", he said, "it's the content we're marked on, not the spelling and the grammar." Well that's alright then!
Is democracy being by-passed in favour of the billionaires?



