Whenever my daughters say, ‘I was sat’ (which is frequently), I ask them who exactly plonked them there.
I am becoming a dreary, Canute-like pedant, fighting a long-lost battle, given there is hardly a broadcaster on Radio 4 who seems to know the difference between ‘sitting’ and ‘sat’.
Plenty of oldies moan about deteriorating grammar standards, but sloppy grammar is a symptom of a far more serious decline in general knowledge, literacy and conversational and written fluency. The first GCSEs were taken in 1987. From then
