Typically badly written - unforgivable misprints. And mis-spellings. No one in the schools cared much these days about the bread-and-butter mechanisms of English usage. He'd been brought up in the hard school: errors of spelling, punctuation and construction of sentences had been savagely penalized by outraged pedagogues, and this had made its mark on him. He had become pedantic and fussy and thought back on the ill-written travesty of a report he had read from one of his own staff only two days before, when he had mentally totted up the mistakes like an examiner assessing a candidate's work. 'Assessing.' Yes, that was wrong in this letter - among other things. The country was becoming increasingly illiterate - for all the fancy notions of the progressive educationalists.
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