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Mind your language

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21 September 2013

9:00 AM

21 September 2013

9:00 AM

One man’s grammatical nicety is another man’s grotesque solecism, I thought, as I perused a report in the Gulf News, where gold prices and prayer times jostle at the masthead. It concerned standards of grammar at schools in Manama, the capital of Bahrain.

‘Our students should be trained on getting the message across,’ said a mathematics teacher.

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