Britain is living in a "post-punctuation¹ world", academics have warned, with the Bank of England named as the latest major institution to ignore the correct use of the English language. 

 

学术界近日告诫英国正处在“后标点时代”，指英格兰银行又是一个不顾英文正确使用规则的重要机构。
 

 

The Bank has been accused of "dumbing down" after choosing to remove punctuation from a quote by Sir Winston Churchill printed on its new £5 notes. 

 

In its concept image for the new polymer £5 notes the Bank correctly included double quotation² marks around the former prime minister's famous saying: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil³, tears and sweat."

 

However, it has emerged that it quietly dropped them from the final design, something it is understood has attracted complaints from keen-eyed members of the public. 

 

The National Literacy Trust has backed their cause advising that the quote is grammatically incorrect in its current state appearing without a full stop or quotation marks.

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