Letter: Talk to teachers about English grammar
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: English teachers and their pupils are fortunate if their Fifties primers have gathered any dust (Letters, 5 February). At our local sixth-form college, some of the French textbooks used date from before 1920, and my son's algebra textbook was first published in 1892.
'User-friendly' was definitely not part of the vocabulary in those days. In fact, it is rather like learning to use a microwave from an instruction book written by Charles Dickens.
Yours faithfully,
MELINDA MEASOR
5 February
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