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First a confession: I'm one of them. Yes, a pedant.

Even on the street, signs with misplaced apostrophes, pompous instructions or unnecessary words can fill me with a burning need to share - to tell the world.

An incensed viewer wrote to our local paper recently referring to 'uneducated television reporters'. He was complaining about the standard of English these days. The BBC hears similar complaints about its reporters, regularly. Their lapses highlight the a key difference between spoken and written English.

Television reporters are certainly not uneducated.

  1. Break the rules of writing
  2. Business writing: Emotions are vital
  3. Ban these words from all your writing
  4. Writing with clarity: More suggestions for your 'banned' list