Two years ago, I wrote a post on the Queen’s English Society as it set up an “English Academy”, and I ended my post “Who will prove the futility of the Queen’s English Society’s efforts to its members?”
We now have the answer: its own members. BBC News has just reported that fewer than twenty bothered to turn up to the AGM, and that it has been decided to wind up the Society.
There’s nothing more to be said, I think.
June 4, 2012 at 8:06 pm
What a loss to the nation.
June 5, 2012 at 12:34 pm
R(I)P
June 5, 2012 at 2:53 pm
Oh no – now HM will have to speak estuary ….
June 8, 2012 at 1:13 pm
Why is it that the English only aspire to mediocrity and not excellence in their use of the English language?
June 8, 2012 at 4:16 pm
ˈgʊd ˎrɪdns
June 9, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Why is it that some people think that “mediocrity” and “excellence” in the use of a language are concepts that mean anything at all?
June 24, 2012 at 2:44 pm
It’s funny how the Yorkshire Dialect Society is still going after 100 years. The Queen’s English Society lasted only 40 years.
June 26, 2012 at 10:41 am
Ed – I think the difference is that the Yorkshire Dialect Society, while promoting a certain variety of English, is not denigrating every other variety either implicitly or explicitly.
November 5, 2012 at 2:48 am
Martin Ball administre le coup de pied de l’âne !
(sorry could not resist it)