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Is Americanese now acceptable?

Royal watchers have recently spotted a rash of Americanisms appearing on the Instagram account of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex – or Prince Harry and Meghan Markle as they’re commonly known – when baby Archie’s impending birth sparked talk of ‘diapers’ and ‘strollers’. Fair enough, you may think. After all, the Instagram account is half-American – even though Kensington Palace aides say the posts are written by members of their staff,

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Could 2018 be the year the apostrophe disappears? Greengrocers everywhere – famed for their “melon’s” and “tomatoe’s” – appear to be winning their long-running battle with grammarians over use of the apostrophe, with text use hastening the demise of the much-abused punctuation mark.

A new report[1] by a leading linguistics researcher believes that misuse has now become so prevalent – with even university students struggling to use it correctly –

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Top chef Marcus Wareing is known to be a perfectionist in the kitchen but he appears to pay less attention to his grammar. in the run-up to Christmas, he posted an error-strewn tweet saying: “If their is any young chefs who want’s to know what training looks like at top level take a look at tonight’s MasterChefUK.”

As grammar fans and, indeed, children everywhere will know, his tweet should have correctly read,

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