>> Difficult, but a WAG says 20 - 35.
My children's age then. The Lad is pretty good and his sister's grammar is OK but her spelling isn't so hot. At 60 now I'm part of a cohort who got relatively little training in formal grammar but were nonetheless taught to write properly. Some comic in the seventies (Milligan?) referencing the end of selective education referred to Mrs Williams' (or was it Mrs Thatcher's) 'incomprehensibles'.
I think with the youngsters it's a combination of typing on phones and seeing Social Media as a place where spelling and grammar don't matter.
The Guardian used to run a column called homophones corner about words that sounded alike but were spelled differently.
The youngest of my colleagues invites people to 'bare with me' while they're doing benefit calculations.
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