The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #71436   Message #1225342
Posted By: Eric the Viking
14-Jul-04 - 12:21 PM
Thread Name: Sir jOhn From Hull-taxi driver
Subject: RE: Sir jOhn From Hull-taxi driver
You are right JoHn I have been a delivery driver in one of my other lives. I've been lots of things. Truck driving is fun. And, you are also right about the lower importance of spelling. Spelling is only recent compared to language which is our first form of communication. Much spelling has been foisted upon us by the ruling classes or accademics who wouldn't know how to drive a truck or mend a burst pipe.( You are also quite right about the middle and upper classes who feel and act as though they are superior to the working/lower classes)The same goes for grammar. The English, pronounciation is only recent, last 150 years or so ("BBC" and Queen type)