I have to say that the BBC news has more spelling and grammar errors per thousand words than most blogs I read. ... now let me try desperately to bring this ba

I have to say that the BBC news has more spelling and grammar errors per thousand words than most blogs I read. ... now let me try desperately to bring this back on topic by saying that I think the thread above blaming Britain for grammatical prescriptivism is way off. Strunk and White popularized some prescriptions unknown in the UK (such as not using "which" in the role of "that") and in my thoroughly anecdotal experience Americans spell [by the conventions of the country they're in] significantly better than Brits do.