CITIZEN Smith is right to condemn falling standards of literacy.

The Citizen itself has been setting a deplorable example for months now by using lower-case letters for proper nouns in your Entertainment Guide.

Mr K Ellel, Westwood Ave, Rishton

EDITOR'S NOTE: EG was designed to be eyecatching and stand out from the rest of the paper. It certainly seems to have achieved that.

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