Vocal Voices

Headline journalist writers need educating or re-educating.

"New strain of mpox found in UK different to", "Investors' reaction to Budget 'very different' to Truss".

Jeez, it's simple: different "from" and similar "to", FGS! Yr 2 Secondary school, it was drilled into us in 1965. Get it wrong and you failed.

Do journalists do Eng Lang at schools anymore?

We had a very good English Language teacher.

He would spend one lesson on one item such as a verb or and adjective.

I can even remember the definition for a "clause".

There is too much "woke"What is wrong with the English used by Shakespeare and Chaucer?

1964. First year at secondary school.

Miss Sturm: "noun; adjective; verb; adverb; comma; semi-colon; colon; full stop; inverted commas; sentences."

"Get those right and you will be understood, get them wrong and people will ignore you."

Mr Goodwin: "Add; subtract; multiply and divide; simple Algebra, 2a (3) + 2b (2) = 10; master them and you will be a mathematical genius."

Life was so much simpler before we had computers, phones and 'apps'.