    \Sentence £:-On October 29th; a BBC Radio  Scotland — program... was. running ‘a  competition in which ‘people: calling.in were  asked to spell ventriloquist -and ‘kibbutz  (among: other words, presumably);. several  callers with older yoices'they:certainly were  not children'were unable to do'so;.does that  mean that the Scots are:to be excepted from  the QES.campaign to compel alll children to  study formal grammar up-to the age of 16  or that the rot sét in long ago?