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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!!

it should probably be "glahss" and "bahth", Leapy……
There is no "r" in it!
and I originate from Lancashire, and have always used a long "a"!

I've recently noticed a local cafe advertising LOSE tea and a pub with AVACADO on its (no apostrophe!) menu.

On the BBC website this morning:

"About 80,000 customers switched their bank account away..."

They don't all share one account so it should be accounts. It's different rules in French, I know, but in English we say lift up your heads.

And this from The Times yesterday:

"All he painted were hundreds of studies."

It should be "was".
All I do is eat, sleep and drink. Change "is" to "are" and you can see how wrong it is.

Orson, I liked your bank account report - I enjoyed getting annoyed about the use of singular, plural stuff!


I had an irritating time earlier this week when on the phone to a Customer Services employee. He kept using 'yourself' rather than 'you' - 'I'll look for the relevant form and email it to yourself'. After three or four uses of this, I wanted to scream.

You often hear or read, for example

Myself and Fred went to the park.
What's wrong with
Fred and I went to the park?