I can’t put it off any longer. I have to let it out. I don’t claim to be Grammar Girl or anything. I am not the expert, but there are some certain phrases that make my skin crawl when I hear them:

“Me and her went to the store…”
“Him and I went to the store…”
“Between you and I…”
“I seen that you bought that book…”
“I graduated college…” (I know what you mean, but I still think you need a do-over)

I also cringe when I hear someone use words that aren’t really words, like irregardless, and I have a particular pet peeve about people saying “I could care less” when I know they mean they couldn’t care less.

Now I understand when speaking there is little time to edit, and I don’t expect people to edit themselves. I do it from time to time and I know I’m not the only one… I caught my little brother correcting himself once. He was smooth about it too, he realized his mistake immediately, followed with the correct word, and kept on going with his story. I was so proud.

Anyway, there are other sins that are committed on paper or in print or on signs that I just have a hard time forgiving (and I’m sure I’ve committed some of them on accident, but that’s in stuff like emails and blogging. You know, stuff that doesn’t really matter). It’s this kind of thing that drives me UP THE WALL:

They paid to have that printed on the van. I shudder at how many people proofed that and said nothing.

I am so afraid of what this world is coming to.