I’ve stopped using them

There you see

It’s missing

That little black dot at the end of a sentence

.

Yes there it is

Or rather there it’s not

I’m not sure who suggested it. I think it was Simon Jenkins, probably in the Guardian. Mr J (no black mark there either) said it is time for a royal commission to tidy up the English language

And to make it easier to use

To use the sign posts of grammar only when they point to something useful and not as some symbol or sign of membership of a literacy club

Why labour when labor will do. Indeed y the phuck knot(?)

Well here’s my first faltering step

No more full stops at the end of paragraphs

Radical eh?

Question marks and apostrophes next

I can only hope the late, great, Mr. Wm. Cobbett approves.

A Southwark sky full of stops and starts and no stars by the author