..to be irked at how common bad spelling and bad grammar are?

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I shall be showing my age when I say that when I was growing up, if you wanted to find out how to spell a word or construct a sentence properly you referred to a dictionary/grammar book.

Now there are virtual books at our fingertips and information at the click of a button encompassing anything you ever need to know and much more and still people can't distinguish between "of" and "off" or "breathe" and "breath".
Why??????

What I would really like to know is why do younger people, say from aged 25ish and younger, not know how to hold a pen or pencil anymore?

Whenever I go shopping and the young customer services assistant needs to fill in form etc, I can't help noticing that they hold the pen in a sort of fist. are they taught to do that these days?

boffy that made me

Its the same with the forks.

Even though I have shown my boys 13 & 8 how to hold one...they still look like they are shoveling something!