Undergraduates can't spell

October 2, 1998

Undergraduates still suffer from "terrible standards of spelling", the latest survey by the Queen's English Society has found. The list of howlers from science undergraduates includes "ejucation" for ejaculation and "vigina" for vagina. The society blamed a failure to teach explicit grammar in schools, and lack of correction by teachers.

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