Bob Chapman
Established Member
‘One of the only’ gets my goat.
What annoys me most in a bar or shop is can I get instead of can I have. It was bad enough the youngsters using it i now hear the older generation using itI'm still outraged by the use of 'yea' instead of 'yes'.
French.What annoys me most in a bar or shop is can I get instead of can I have. It was bad enough the youngsters using it i now hear the older generation using it
And American.French.
When I had a job, a colleague and I calculated that on average we each proof-read/ assessed approx. 1.5 million words per year. That's apart from our own reading and writing. I think it's fair to say that I still obsess over language, tho it's a combination of pleasure and pain. But I'm coming round to the idea that so long as it communicates well enough, best let it go. Chill. Etc.I try, usually successfully, not to let any of it upset me. Why raise your blood pressure over anything so trivial?
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