For years I have been tutoring elementary students in reading and in language usage.

“There ain’t no can’t” (story about bedside care at St. Francis Hospital, July 25) rasped on me like fingernails on a slate chalkboard. Is “There isn’t any can’t” less informative or effective? Medical and surgical nurses are assumed to be well educated. It is demeaning and degrading to this fine profession to adopt ill-educated street language as a motto. The least that you, as editor, could do is place quote marks around the headline phrase to suggest the choice of improper usage.

Jay Allison, Federal Way