People don’t want to join societies like they used to...

The Queens English No More

by Carolyn Moynihan

• On the last day of June a sad event in the long and noble history of the English language is scheduled to take place: the Queen’s English Society will formally be wound up. 
• Forty years of trying to raise the awareness of fellow Englishmen about the misuse of apostrophes and semicolons, the overuse of the exclamation mark and the insidious effect of American spell checks — to say nothing of texting and twittering — have seen the ranks of active supporters thin to vanishing point. 
• Only 22 members came to the recent annual meeting, and ten of those were committee members.

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