Second, the use of foreign expressions is a natural form of language evolution, especially in this internet age. And, the brits most certainly do adopt Americanisms, indeed it is something of a passion for Brits.

Finally, in the spirit of your post, what drives me bonkers is the American habit of dropping the adverbial ending, you know dropping the ‘ly’ off the adverb. I can’t think of any specific examples off the top of my head, but the usage is becoming more and more common it seems. Something like, “He ran quickly” becomes “He ran quick”. Drives me right bloody barkers.

My pet peeve is the old standard of using verbs as nouns. No, you did NOT “conference” with him, you conferred with him. Talk about making language unnecessarily obsfucating!

I still wince at the its-it’s confusion, but it’s not worth my high blood pressure.

People that are too lazy to correct their spellcheck and leave things like “wretched” instead of “retched” earn my scorn.

If anyone wants their ideas to be taken seriously, he’d better use proper English.

Seriously, though, I AM a grammar freak.

“It was me who told him to go”. Instead of.

“It was I who told him to go”.

“If it was up to me, he would be out of here”. Instead of.

“If it were up to me, he would be out of here”.

Have no idea if my punctuation is correct, but I don’t worry about such things.

“That”. Its a word almost never required.

“I realize that its not a necessary word”.

“I realize its not a necessary word”.

Drives me CRAZY.