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Queen's English Society Caves In Face Of Txt Msgs
- The Guardian , Tuesday, June 5, 2012 2:14 PM
The Queen may be celebrating her jubilee, but the Queen's EnglishSociety, which has railed against the misuse and deterioration of the English language, is to fold. For 40 years the society has championed good English – and hasn't been above the occasional criticism of the Queen's own pronouncements – but it has finally conceded that it cannot survive in the era of textspeak and Twitter. Among its findings, and which probably will only worsen, were that 80% of university undergraduates could not spell and use the word “effect” correctly, and 43% were unable to spell the word “miniature.”
