grammar question

'I should like' or 'I would like' when making a request? I sometimes write 'should', which sounds rather formal, but say 'would' - crazy!

Can I get a burger please?

What about people who say "nucular" when they mean "nuclear"? You'd be surprised how often I hear that on tv and radio.

Yes. I want to scream when phone sellers say something like " would that be Ok for yourself?" Aargh.

I get annoyed when people say "I am liking" instead of "I like". Am I wrong to feel this way?

"haitch" &" bored of" are real irritants, and so is "the both"!. Should be either "the two" or "both".

What about hanged; people are hanged, meat is hung. People are not hung.

When students used 'different to' or 'different than', I used to point out that if they used 'differ', they wouldn't say 'I differ to/than you'. At least I hoped not.
I wouldn't use 'the both' myself, but it's a perfectly good dialect use in Scotland (the baith) and, I think, the North East.

My bugbear (in addition to all those already listed) is "comprised of" - for example "the house is comprised of 2 bedrooms, a bathroom, kitchen, living room".
Comprise means "be made up of" or "consist of", so the house comprises 2 bedrooms, a bathroom etc. So when people tack "of" on the end they're saying the houses consists of of 2 bedrooms...

'Can I get' instead of 'please may I have' is an Americanism I think. Seems to be creeping in and annoys me to death! My younger nephews and nieces have started to use it but it's not up to me to comment. Same with should of instead of should have. My DD sometimes jokes that I must have (of!) been brought up posh when I say anything about grammar. Not true at all but my parents were sticklers about us speaking and spelling correctly.

Which reminds me - was researching some local builders on-line yesterday and one has a page of customer comments. The builder has pointed out that these are unadulterated comments and therefore spelling and GRAMMER have not been corrected!

Maybe just me, but the ubiquitous,"for free" is wrong,isn't it?
Shouldn't it be just,"free" or "for nothing"?

I am so sick of hearing everyone now saying 'fink and fote' and 'sumfink and muffink'.

'Somethink' is frequently said by commentators on both radio and T.V!

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In my local area, 'I seen' and 'I done' are commonly used in place of 'I saw' and 'I did'. It sets my teeth on edge, especially when said in a pseudo-posh accent!

I often read 'a myriad of' in books, but it does not need the 'of'.

You and I are in a small minority on 'myriad', shysal. Greek for 10,000, a unit in the army. I think the boat has sailed on this bugbear!

Again diverging from the grammar topic - but I have to report that the commentator on the Open Championship has just mentioned 'big solid drops of rain'. I do hope they're not!

I dislike all the misused or mispronounced words mentioned, but my particular hates are "bored of" and "nucular", with "haitch" coming next, followed by "crated" instead of "created".

And sick - as in this is the sick time this has happened or he came sick in the race (instead of sixth).

Don't they tend to say 'sickth'? Similar to my complaint somewhere before about 'fith'

Yes that's probably more like it Ana sickth but I did hear someone last week who definitely said sick. Drives me mad.

It's like 'secetary'. Lazy speech...[cross emoticon, angry would be a bit OTT]

And
"he won 'three thousand pound' " rather than 'pounds'

'get off of'

also new words...listening to the radio this afternoon and a reporter referred to 'emotionality' when 'emotion' would have been perfectly adequate.

Though I do think some of the ' He were sat sitting there' could be argued to be dialect rather than poor grammar!

My mum found it hard to roll her Rs ..it is the same as having a lisp!
But at least she did not call my brother Rory..I had a colleague who had a son that she lovingly referred to a 'Worwy' more thoughtless really rather than wrong!

I'm with you there, KatyK - 'sick' instead of sixth drives me mad, too. DG watches the Grand Prix, and it's amazing how many drivers are 'sick' at some stage of each race!

Nobodysays, "Can I have a coffee please?"
Instead it's, "Can I get a skinny latte frappuchino?"

Ugh...