"Me and my friends aren't in the minority because we're not on the brink of suicide and carring knives in our g-strings. "

Yikes! you're all wearing G strings?   Whatever happened to sensible navy blue knickers, 'Daisybell'...? :0)

"lizzie, sorry for the atrotious spelling."

jade, you never, EVER think that you need to apologise to me for spelling, grammar, whatever....I knew exactly what you meant.

The witch hunt that has followed me round for years focussed for so long on my grammar and spelling, trying so hard to undermine me, make me feel ignorant and stupid. They never achieved their aim. They did, however, make me fight harder for all of those who are similarly abused in this way...

I do Elizabethan spelling myself...as in I make it up as I go along sometimes, if I can't remember how to spell it.

I read that "Eats Shoots and Leaves' book...or at least, I started to, but I never got past the part where the author told us how she was more upset about the incorrect use of a word, in the reporting of 9/11 than she was about the actual incident itself.

I threw it away at that point....

If someone is more upset about grammar, than over that terrible day and the mountain of sadness it caused, still causes, to this day, then they have a hole in their soul...

You just write as you do, that's way good enough for me, jade...
xx