It’s a Funny Old World
BY DEREK HUDSON
• Letters to the editor, highlighted by The Week magazine: From The Times, Michael Plumbe, Hastings, East Sussex headlined ‘Baiting pedants’:
‘When I was chairman of the Queen’s English Society, I complained “officially” to my local greengrocer about his errant apostrophes.
‘He winked. He told me passers-by often popped into the shop to complain. Then, while there, they would buy something. Crafty.’