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um Sep 2020 6:41pm, 4 Sep 2020 3,230 posts	Quote Pin um [I wouldn't raise the spelling / grammar thing. I'd print a copy & point it out to the child. And ask them to ask their teacher about it .... asking if spelling/grammar is important ... But then, all my 'children' are well beyond that age.]
um Sep 2020 7:00pm, 4 Sep 2020 3,231 posts	Quote Pin um BBC news and 'confusing quarantine' and filming 'confused passengers returning 2 days early'. If people don't know what country they live in, they shouldn't be allowed out of it.
Rosehip Sep 2020 8:45pm, 4 Sep 2020 17,648 posts	Quote Pin Rosehip (I was, more than once, so incensed by spelling and grammatical errors on letters home from school, that I "marked" one in red pen and sent it back. In truth, it may have been more than once) The assumption that it is Mo that will get the hr record and not ABDI
Rosehip Sep 2020 8:46pm, 4 Sep 2020 17,649 posts	Quote Pin Rosehip aghh! Abdi (oops)
Metro_Nome Sep 2020 8:48pm, 4 Sep 2020 5,582 posts	Quote Pin Metro_Nome [at this point it would be kinda poor sportsmanship if Abdi got it having tucked in behind for so long though!]
ChrisHB Sep 2020 9:17pm, 4 Sep 2020 19,685 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB Films
Dooogs Sep 2020 9:22pm, 4 Sep 2020 6,254 posts	Quote Pin Dooogs I'd be half-tempted to offer to proof-read the school's comms for them, but that admittedly would be weapons-grade snottiness...
Velociraptor Sep 2020 10:39am, 5 Sep 2020 48,356 posts	Quote Pin Velociraptor "Sat" instead of "sitting" or "seated".
Eynsham Red Sep 2020 11:29am, 5 Sep 2020 6,385 posts	Quote Pin Eynsham Red ??^^ In what context?
Ultracat Sep 2020 12:17pm, 5 Sep 2020 13,054 posts	Quote Pin Ultracat Companies who want to charge you extra for delivery because they claim I live in a remote location.