pet peeves

[victor steinbok]

BBC finally put up its list of 50 "offensive" or "irritating" Americanisms
and it's every bit as ridiculous as was expected. Mark Liberman covered the
initial article on LL and Pullum followed up with a post on the 50. It's
hard not to read it without laughing--it's reminiscent of early days of
Wikipedia in that the information is unverified, at best, and represents
mostly very personal, non-extendable views.

http://goo.gl/sSb0n

High-school newspapers have better researched pieces. (Note, in particular,
that a substantial number of selections come from US-based correspondents
and obvious ESL correspondents.) The list tops off with "I could care less"
as one such "Americanism".

VS-)

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