I want to discuss the current propensity people have of mixing up the English language. They mock it, and abuse it here. This United States of America. This is not the Queen's English as we all well know. There are definite Germanic influences, as well as a host of others. Everyone had to learn the lingua franca, and that was English, so it became a bit of a mish-mash, much like the culture, which is fine by me. It makes the country an interesting one to live in and the laissez faire attitude that anything goes, provided you can be scandalous enough and make enough money at the same time. But ah, oh my word, I become quite irate when I hear things like "The amount of people". Really! That is unforgivable.
There is a host of common errors, and I was delighted to find page upon page of similar complaints on the Web. I suffer not alone!!!
Now there's a new one, quite cringe-worthy, ain't it?
