scrumbleduck. Oh, thank you! I utterly detest the addition of "k" at the end of 'something', 'anything', and 'nothing'. I have actually seen it written as "some think"! With such poor pronunciation, spelling and grammar, it is hardly surprising that logical expression has been lost.
Need I say, I also hate the use of "Was you?" but have been berated for my dislike of it, being told it is a "regional dialect". Too bad, as far as I am concerned. It is not correct grammar.
I have to tell you all, I was at a conference in the early days of the creation of the National Curriculum in 1989. The conference was about English in the Curriculum for the Infants aged 5 to 7. The woman giving the talk was the
author of the report on English in the Infants'School, later referred to by a newspaper as "The Sharon and Tracey Report". From start to finish in her talk she left off the sound of H at the beginning of those words starting with H, she glottal stopped all the Ts in words and used many expressions which one could at best term as colloquialisms. I was so horrified I started to write down all that she said, spelling phonetically words in the way she spoke. My neighbour saw my notes and began to laugh. People wanted to know what was going on and in the break my neighbour explained. I was attacked for not understanding "English at the level of the children". I was a teacher at the time and was studying Psychology. I found the criticism ridiculous. If we say "vis is who you duz when you play crickih'" how will the 5 year old ever learn to spell? How can we ask the young child to learn phonics, sounds such as 'th' if the Teacher and child say 'v'?
I was near to tears for the dumbing down of our education system.
