An apparent inability to pronounce the letter T unless its the first letter in a word - 'twenny twenny' (also in the American manner, which leads me to wonder just how many Americans we now have living here) & 'cannabry' fgs; clearly we now live in a tin of cheese.
And yes - 'across something or other ' is also irritating, as is the liberal use of 'literally' when its obvious the person hasn't the least idea of its actual, literal meaning.
And especially on the news - 'is' instead of 'has'.
To be honest though, I'm just dreadful with apostrophes sometimes, & definitely tend to make mistakes from time to time, but then I'm not reading the news - for which we can all be thankful!
Not that I'd want a return to the earlier days when radio announcers (as they then were) did their best to sound as upper class BBC English as possible - but there was a time after that when people had a better grasp of the language & didn't try to sound like anything other than ordinary Kiwis; that'd be good enough.
And yes - 'across something or other ' is also irritating, as is the liberal use of 'literally' when its obvious the person hasn't the least idea of its actual, literal meaning.
And especially on the news - 'is' instead of 'has'.
To be honest though, I'm just dreadful with apostrophes sometimes, & definitely tend to make mistakes from time to time, but then I'm not reading the news - for which we can all be thankful!
Not that I'd want a return to the earlier days when radio announcers (as they then were) did their best to sound as upper class BBC English as possible - but there was a time after that when people had a better grasp of the language & didn't try to sound like anything other than ordinary Kiwis; that'd be good enough.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)