With reference to recent articles and letters on the subject of good or bad grammar (Nit-picking on grammar issues, Letters, August 17) may I add a couple of things which I find irritating?

I think it may be a trend among the younger folk to start a sentence with “Me and Jenny” (or whatever the name might be). I have also noticed that when asking for an item in a food shop they say (for example) “Can I get a meat pie?” The answer to that might be “No, I will get it for you and then you can have it”.

Language of course evolves and we have to expect changes all the time, but we can hope that basic grammar will survive.

Jean Frost,

Heworth,York

We need real debate on safety of vaping

Is vaping safe?

Can there be a sensible debate on this please, because how do you evaluate what is safe when cigarettes have filters, but cigars do not, yet vaping is being promoted by the medical world as better than all these tobacco products?

Vaping still has a highly addictive nicotine substance which causes highs but restrictive arteries as a penalty aftermath.

What worries me is that the powers-that-be worship profits before people and that is not good for our wellbeing.

Until we alleviate the poverty and high tension living of today, retreat into our drug-induced worlds will still continue.

From a viewpoint beyond our own, what does that tell us of our present culture of development?

Phil Shepherdson,

Chantry Close,

York

Efficiency may be answer to question

Having seen a TV interview with Lisa Winward on the award of the role of Chief Constable, I noted that she mentioned “efficiency”.

Having read the letter from Mr H F Perry (August 16) I would hazard a guess that this is the answer to his question as to how the PCC, Julia Mulligan, expects to get more out of less.

Peter Elliott,

Wetherby Road, York