Check Your English

  

 

 

Check your English

I implore you

For errors in the daily tabloids

Are quite a few.

 

English gone wrong

Is surely the case

And given the level of our education,

This is out of place.

 

I’ll give one example

From the recent past

And if the incident wasn’t serious

We could laugh.

 

 

 

From the Nation News

This one was hot

“When a dark-coloured car drove by

And fired several gunshots.”

 

Beware I dare say

Of dark cars firing gunshots,

It is not safe even at Karaoke shows;

It is definitely not.

 

Reporters and journalists

Check your English!

To be ridiculed internationally

Is not our wish.

 

Check your English

I implore you

For errors in the daily tabloids

Are quite a few.

 

 

 

Our standard is high,

Let’s maintain it

And please, all you proof readers,

Be careful to edit.

 

Be careful I warn

If standing in a group

For the shootists are not particular

When they shoot.

 

I’m no English expert

So, if you should see

That I have erred in my English,

Please pardon me.

 

Stewart Russell © April 7, 2026