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I know some of us get irritated by bad/clumsy grammar so here is a thread where we can share our pet hates - here is one of mine...

...`Drawring` often articulated by people who should know better !

Being brought up in Dorset I was probably guilty of that .....until I knew better, of course!

We don't get the dreaded 'r' disease in Scotland - but I have to suffer it occasionally in crosswords (in 'sounds like' clues which don't work for us). A current annoyance is the spreading of 'could of', 'should of' (instead of 'have') etc - lazy and wrong!

Even some of our politicians lose the L in Ostraya

I dislike the use of times instead of multiply.
Times is not a verb and I cringe every time I hear it on Countdown

I'm listening to a young girl being interviewed on the TV.
She includes the word 'like' in virtually every sentence.
I don't understand why so many of them do it, like!

You've not got the rhythm right, rossim. It would be
...them, like, do it!

... so, they're now training people - who might otherwise, er, be hesitant - to begin with "so". Add that to the aaargh list!

And now I must away to the other pedants' thread!

beng a yorkshire man I cringe whenever I hear Glarss and barth. It is glass and bath ploease not southerners (should southerners have an apostrophe?)

Imeant to say please note southerners!!