    Sentence 1: 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 voices'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 all children to  study formal grammar up to the age of 16 or that the ro  set inlong ago?    Sentence 2: Other words may have included knife and|  polysyllabic.