I want to start The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to the English Language. Let's start with "lay" and "lie."
You don't lay down to take a nap. You lie down to take a nap.
"Lay your head on my shoulder. Lay your warm and tender body next to mine." This Country-Western song got it right.
I think this battle has been lost, but somebody has to stand up for the elites. Anybody out there want to adopt a word and be its guardian?
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My favorite (??) language pet peeve is people using "irregardless” when they mean “regardless”. This error totally reverses the meaning of their statement. So, of course, to be perverse, I respond to the statement as stated.... then gaze stoically and unblinkingly into their confused eyes as they try to figure out what just happened.
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