Grr Grr grr

"my bad"...what's wrong with good old-fashioned "sorry, it's my fault"

The things I hate are legion - I noticed before Christmas people were saying 'I'm so excited for Christmas'. Where did that come from and when? It's 'I'm so excited about Christmas'. I can be excited for you, if you are doing something out of the ordinary, but not for the thing itself. Increasingly I hear the 'n' dropped from the indefinite article before a vowel sound, giving 'she was a important person', for example. People don't seem to understand the difference between count and uncount nouns and how we use them, so they say 'an amount of people' when they should say 'a number of people'. I suppose I should be grateful not to have yet heard 'a number of sugar/wine/hope' or anything else you can't count.

I'm always wary when I'm told, "I don't mean to be rude/mean/racist but....", because I know that that's exactly what they will be.

And they always say it after something really simple such as 'I went to the shops today, if you know what I mean.' How could I not?

The BBC playing the same Christmas Carol over and over again as a link between programmes:

*Hark the Herull
Dangels sing*

Please BBC - play the version by King's College Choir not a dumbed-down version by some pop singer!!

Calling Christmas Crimbo! Hate it.

I do use a lot of these sayings myself , and I'm not easily aggravated by them. But "I turned round and said.......and then he turned round and said......., so I turned round and said......." always conjures up a mental picture to me of people physically doing this!

"I was like wow!"
(Young colleague telling me she had met a new boyfriend.)

It needs (to be, understood) cleaned.
That's what I always thought it was, anyway.

I noticed in Scotland that was used a lot.

As well as all those mentioned already, I also cannot bear to hear"it needs cleaned", or any other past participle, after "it needs". Surely " it needs cleaning" is correct? ( with apologies for some incorrect punctuation there)

Thee/Thuh! Wow, I never knew that. I'm astonished!

I've got to admit to being guilty of some of the above, although I know it's poor English.
One of my pet hates is somethink instead of something.
Also if you can't pronounce your th's you shouldn't be a media presenter.

my nephew says "nice one", instead of "thank-you"

Just realised I hate the way DD2 says 'Cheers' instead of 'thank you'. Arrrrggggghhhhhh.

AGH ....THEE before a word beginning with a vowel... Sheesh. It's harder to write than to say!

My current bugbear is that we seem to have lost the difference between 'the' pronounced thee and 'the' pronounced thuh or 'th' -- as in "the apple" and "thuh tree"
I clearly remember being taught that it's 'th before a word beginning with a vowel and th' for a word starting with a consonant.
The number of times I hear 'thuh EU' drives me mad. Not only does it sound disjointed, clumsy and just plain ugly, it's actually easier, and certainly more mellifluous, to say 'thee EU' . (And newsreaders seem to be the main culprits. So much so that I wonder if the BBC has issued an edict decreeing it's 'thuh EU' / thuh event' etc. )

Grampy At the moment there is an air about of "Whoever reads this can take all the trouble to work out what I mean"

Free education for all was supposed to mean that everyone had the tools to undertake any job they went for. They would get literacy, numeracy, general knowledge and the ability to organise their time and skills, and after that the social mobility would be up to them - if they wanted it, they could go for it.

That acquisition of education has two parts who have to work together for it to succeed - the teacher/system and the pupil. Quite a lot of pupils now seem to believe that how much they learn is all up to the teacher. Meanwhile a lot of teachers are still suffering from the legacy of the no-grammar years.

That article shows how important basic literacy is. As it says " Few areas of the workplace are untouched by grammar in some way; even if your job doesn’t directly involve writing, chances are you’ll still need to communicate in writing with your co-workers, management, and clients or customers at some point."

...and we wonder what happened to social mobility:

blog.hubspot.com/marketing/grammar-data-promotion

No

Will we ever recover from the era of "spelling and grammar doesn't matter"?

"Where's me coat"? ...." I never done it "....."Gizza taste " grrrr

JuliaSeizer44 - agree! {grin]

Comes from Ireland, no?