OMG!!! Queen's English society set to close

June 05, 2012 17:18

For 40 years, it has battled to defend the English language against poor grammar, spelling and punctuation. But the Queen's English Society has finally conceded defeat to the Twitter and text-obsessed generation and is to fold.

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