If I hear these one more time......

Drawring instead of drawing, I am not talking children but BBC presenters who I believe should know better.

Weather people who say Northern Island rather than Northern Ireland. There's an r in there.

A lot of it is just lazy speech; "seckertry" instead of secretary, "joolery" for jewellery, "wiv" for with, "hospiddaw" for hospital, and so on. "I was sat" or "I was stood" instead of "sitting" or "standing" are also awful.

When young people are invited to interviews, however, these errors are noted and sometimes count against them.

Pronouncing the letter H as haitch sets my teeth on edge. Even radio and tv presenters are guilty.

My bugbear........... it was almost exactly. It is either exactly or almost not the two together.

"The area or group comprises of..." aahhhhhhhhhh!

An area or group either "comprises" or "consists of" and one of the worst offenders is the BBC.

Aren't we so lucky as to have received such a good education to be able to notice these things. I've calmed a bit from my past irritations and often think that the 'offenders' maybe haven't been as fortunate as me with their schooling. However, I still get a bit uggy with Febury!

Phoenix I agree. On Facebook 'would of' is much more common now than would have or would've. I wonder how many teachers get it wrong or whether they correct children who do it. I think that adults are probably often from the generation when some bright spark decided that teaching spelling and grammar was not necessary but older and younger people should understand that it is wrong.

I recIEved an email from our local council. It had a pop-up that asked my opinion of the site. I couldn't resist it. I can't remember what I actually said but it was along the lines of "Incorrect spelling makes people look uneducated, recieve is mis-spelt, receive is the correct way to spell this word". Sorry, but bad spelling just grates! Oh, pedantic, me!!

It annoys me to hear or read the word "unique" being qualified, for example, by suggesting that something is "almost unique"

Loose instead of lose.

When someone tells you that they are "under the doctor"

When using the phrase "fed up", I have always said fed up "with" and I thought everybody did - but I've noticed recently that the majority of people now say fed up "of" on TV. I know it's not important but it does annoy me!

I heard a teacher call out "yous guys" to her students, what hope do they have?

'He will try and get it done'. No! No! No! He will try TO get it done, and might fail.
'Draw' instead of 'drawer' when I am chasing furniture items on ebay,
''Nothink'
'I was like, really fed up of it'.
'Return back to the studio' (Roving reporter speak)...

Oh dear, what an intolerant old baggage I am, these moans and grumbles and criticisms could fill a page. I must stop now.

Quite unique makes me shudder.... but not as much as wrap up warm. Arrgggghhh.

Apparently one doesn't have loo paper any more. One has bathroom stationery.

In cafes and restaurants, people want to 'get' a coffee. I always think it should be 'have'. It sounds so wrong to me!

People seem to fall to the floor and drop things on the floor when they're outdoors......it's ground, not floor! Floor inside, ground outside.

yes, robthefox, unique, - when people say very unique!! also lots of people on the tv who say 'so and so and I', when it should be 'so and so and me'!

Couldn't agree more, but then I have to calm myself down by reminding myself that language evolves and, let's face it, at times English spelling, pronunciation and grammar is baffling to most of us. Or should that be 'are baffling...?)

Spelling does not evolve in the same way as language though. I saw last year " Ice rink is closed due to the whether" and there were ' corjets' for sale at the market. In most cases this is ignorance due to bad education. My aunt always said you could tell an avid reader by their excellent spelling

I have so many things that bug me but the top two at the moment are 'yourself/myself' instead of you or me, and the holiday ad with the Australian woman talking about 'the exact same room' instead of exactly the same room, drives me potty!

I’m a freelance writer and you are so right in saying that spoken English now becoming rather bad.

I think ‘off of’ is an American thing, as is ‘gotten. I’ve also noticed that certain words that shouldn’t be joined together now are (e.g. ‘any more’ is now regularly appearing as ‘anymore’, when these mean two different things) and that punctuation, or should I say lack of it, has gone by the wayside. With people our age, we tend to see so many mistakes in written English, that we eventually can’t remember how it should be.

I place one example of lack of a short sentence here how it could actually mean something quite different with the addition a comma:-

I have failed my friend.
I have failed, my friend.

Oh the joys ….. but isn’t it lovely to have a good command of our own native language? I know I am proud of it.

Anyone noticed 'fits perfecly ' on the Sharp's bedroom furniture ad. It makes me cringe when it comes on.