This trend is really driving me!

No, I've not come across this. Perhaps it's in a particular area of the country.

Bored of (instead of 'with')

Am I the only gran who really hates “24/7”?

Let’s hang !!!!!! Apparently means “spend time together”. Joan Collins on radio 2 this afternoon said she used to “hang out” with Paul Newman - in that context, perfectly acceptable, given that anything involving Paul Newman is delicious.

Bathsheba. I quote, and my apologies to fellow Gransnetters over the border for any errors, the great Rabbie Burns
' O wad some power the giftie gie us to see oursels as ithers see us'.

True sarah, but its still annoying.

Bathsheba
I'm afraid that I don't mix with the hoi-polloi, only with people who know how to talk properly. Not street slang or embarrassing 'you was' 'down the pub' and glottal-stop type enunciation.

I've not noticed this really. Perhaps it depends on where you live. There are so many variations in the Engllish language. Language changes over the years.

Most of the English language doesn't make sense, how words are spelt, using C for K sounds it's all very confusing, some letters are silent others are spelt one way but pronounced another way, it's no wonder the immigrants find it too hard to learn how to speak let alone how to spell..

ignore them . or say so what ?? who cares..

Slang, and regional dialects, among all social classes, may be either creative, or for solidarity with peers. I like vocabulary and pronunciations that are different from what I'm used to . I enjoy malapropisms too. However I do disdain usages that fail to make sense. The new use of 'So' to start an utterance and not as a synonym for 'therefore' is an example of language not changing but deteriorating.

I can't say it's something I've ever come across tbh.