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Why I Do And Don’t Like Grammarly
I don’t like being boxed in by software.
I attended school between the years 1947 and 1959 and was in the top five in my classes in English for most of those years. It was one of my favorite subjects. I guess you could say I learned English the old fashioned way. My father was a great believer in having the written word written correctly. My siblings and I spent many hours under his eagle sharp eye practicing our penmanship, learning to punctuate and spell according to the Queen’s English. And of course, we learned English, English. When I moved to North America in 1969, I had to learn to use North American English. Both spelling and pronunciation of many words were different.
Colour became color. Aluminium became aluminum. Cheque became a check. The boot of a car became trunk. Chemist shop became drugstore. Petrol was gasoline and so on.
I like free-flowing English. I like the fact that English is a language in a constant state of flux. One only has to look at the English spoken and written in Shakespeare’s day to verify this. I guess my English could be considered old-fashioned. However, I prefer to think of it as creative and inventive.
