Whatever happened to grammar and spelling?

I hope they aren't! I haven't seen any evidence of it - but perhaps I'm not looking in the right places...

Ok, I know that cant and wont are words in their own right (although my iPad doesn't). I meant that can't and won't are evolving into cant and wont. Especially wont. Perhaps we have too many apostrophes?!

Interesting comments below the video!

Hi just catching up...been busy working in a school and doing some inspecting of nurseries so not logged on for ages. All I will say is that the 'person in the street' has been fed the line that standards are declining but actually no evidence out there to prove it! It is a case of drip drip drip with auto-suggestion and people think it is true!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPJ_ZEBh1Bk&list=UU4NkS_w8o50U6jw2oksEMxQ&index=2&feature=plcp

Suggest anyone who thinks kids have an easy time watch this horrific DVD. These children are 5/6 yrs old.

Me and my big nose!!

The flowers are lovely, thank you gramps!
(I didn't know you subscribed to the Architectural Digest - did you have a nose-related accident with it?)

I'm always getting myself into trouble, saying things or misunderstanding summat!

I hope you liked the flowers Ana. They looked ok but my sense of smell is not too good these days!

Probably due to "AD"!

I don't see how, gramps, as I had already pointed out in my post that 'cant' and 'wont' are words in their own right and obviously I knew what they meant....

Hope I didn't embarras you Ana. Not intentional!

Nellie...go for it, you are a natural people person...huge and warm (hug)

gramps - thanks, but I did know that!

I can't help thinking that none of the discussion on this thread so far is likely to encourage Katherine Fry and Rowena Kirton to give away one of their books!

Yes! *You're right Gramps.

And - "Constance, as was her wont, left early".

Hi Ana,
Can't is an abreviation of "can not". cant is to do with a form of speech!

I'm sure one of our Teachers will correct me if I'm wrong. I may have misread the post of course!!

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Cant and wont are words in their own right, NfkDumplint!

That must have been a dialect 'cant'! I think 't is slowly vanishing as the words cant and wont are becoming words in their own right. Like 'til is now mostly til.

Personally I find the inability to distinguish there, their and they're most annoying.

And Good Luck for tomorrow Nellie!

Nor sure why this is on this thread, but GOOD LUCK in your new job from me too!

Netty, should "cant" be "can't". (just testing!)

should add, the spelling error was not the reason for the change!

think I may suffer from OCD relating to spelling - the gym I used had a notice saying, "please leave the cubical as you would wish to find it" - had to amend it to cubicle, the cleaner then erased my amendment and, guess what, I felt compelled to amend it again - changed my gym to one without 'cubicles' - felt so much happier!

Good luck nellie you're going into a grand job. Hope your first day goes well

Oh Nellie - it's tomorrow you start! I was thinking it was last Monday (I've been away all week)! Like nightowl, I loved my job in social care - though my job was 'health and social care', like yours will be. I'd found my niche - and so will you! You'll be perfect for the job! Good luck - we'll all be thinking about you!

Oh wow thank you all,am nervous but excited,hope I come up to scratch,better get an early night xxxxxlove nellie

Good luck in your new job, nellie. Be thinking of you