Avoid sounding like a sycophant when writing about bigwigs!

TEACHER’S needed? What is that, which belongs to a certain teacher, that is needed? That doesn’t make sense at all, which is why we’ll be excused if we concluded that a school owner asked a painter to make it known to all and sundry that his school needed TEACHERS urgently ahead of the start of a new term. The possessive mark, i.e. the apostrophe (’) between R and the S is totally misleading. Trust signwriters! PHOTO|COURTESY OF FACEBOOK

What you need to know:

  • What disturbs me — and I suppose it’d disturbs you too, good reader — is when I note that many culprits in this form of semi-literacy aren’t pre-secondary school dropouts.