Friday, July 12, 2019

WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?

I shouldn't let bad grammar bother me. After all, I'm not perfect. Still it does. Especially certain usages  that I can't believe so many college-educated persons use, such as "If I would have." which is always wrong, wrong, wrong. The correct phrase is "If I had". How difficult is that? yet almost everyone says the illiterate "If I would have" even professional newscasters who should know better. Another error that drives me mad is the way people—even announcers again—change two-syllable words to three syllables. Thus sparkling becomes spark-el-ling, trembling becomes trem-bel-ing and a thousand other two-syllable words suddenly give birth to a superfluous third syllable. I can't imagine why everyone says "cannadate: when the word is candidate. Or worst of all what everyone seems to have against an interior t, making them pronounce words like Atlantic, frantic, dentist, romantic, interview, internet, interstate as Atlannic, frannic, dennist, romannic, innanet,innastate and on and on. Maybe they don't teach spelling, grammar or diction in school anymore. Yuh, that must be it.

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