We have a fun little book in our bathroom called Accommodating Broccoli in the Cemetery about the joys of English spelling, words that should be changed, and so forth. Some words have lost sounds and others were changed by people in charge who wanted the words to be closer to their French or Latin roots. As for grammar I remember getting some lessons in sentence structure in the good elementary school I went to, then I went to middle school with 100 other kids in the room and couldn't learn a thing.
*Cereal bowl from So Much Pun
