Grammar

I am not so uppity that I look down my nose at every person's grammatical errors. In fact, yes I know it is hard to believe, but I make them myself. I end sentences with prepositions, I confuse verb usage sometimes and I have even used punctuation incorrectly. These, to me, are every day issues that can happen to anyone when tired, multi-tasking, etc. My issues are with the English language and where we have gone wrong.

The thing that irks me the most is "On tomorrow" or "On yesterday". It is like nails on a chalkboard for me. I have even corrected grammar to people I don't know...even customers!!! That is how much it aggravates me. If someone said "on Tuesday", or "on Sunday", that would be fine. Those are proper nouns and can be used in a prepositional phrase. It doesn't even sound correct. Like a hiccup in a sentence or a bump in the flow of speech. I cannot understand how children have gone to school for at LEAST 12 years and NOT ever been corrected.

This brings me to my next point about the decline in the English language. Have you ever used or heard the phrase "gotta give him props"? How about saying your words that end in -er and make them sound like -ah? It is the uneducated masses that have issues with enunciating or pronouncing words correctly. Maybe they misunderstood someone at one time and really think that is how you say the words. I doubt it, but I will not count it out. But then, these ill used phrases, turn into everyday language. Intelligent and educated people start speaking this way. It is crazy! How is it that we take our slang from the uneducated masses and not from well respected professors, doctors or lawyers? Why do we have to dumb down America?