Dear John,

While I agree with your statements in regards to Black Serpents' poor English, you yourself are beginning to border on racism with your claims that only British people can speak Engliah well and that other cultures that have adopted English as their native tongue have twisted and tainted the Language because they couldn't speak it properly.

Is it not true that only 2% of British people actually speak the "Queens English"? So you must accept that British people themselves have changed English in order to suit themselves? So, how do you qualify to teach English? If you go far enough back to when we all spoke old English it would lead to the assumption(by your criteria) that none of us are actually qualified to teach English.

What about Irish people? You certainly aren't going to tell me that the people from a country that produced Yeats, Joyce, wilde et all are not qualified to teach English? Or that they should "have the courtesy" to learn the language properly before they have the gall to use it.

While Black Serpents obvious biases and prejudices are more coarse and obvious to the eye, yours are of the more dangerous kind. To believe you have the divine right and abilty to do something simply because you were born in a certain place is something that Hitler, mayhap, would have been proud of.