May we discuss the expressions and misuses of words we most hate?

This thought is partly inspired by the recent Tone Def Leppard misuse of the verb "to lay" in stead of the verb "to lie". The main trigger, however, is the thread about a church school banning "Imagine" (the Lennon song) as "inappropriate".

How I hate the present-day misuses of that word. Use of the word usually betokens some act that will be decided by the politically correct to have extreme adverse consequences for the one accused - yet it fails to specify the act or the reason for a prohibition of the act in any way that is sufficient to permit the alleged wrongdoer either to know why what he said or did was wrong or to enable him to defend himself. Truly it is a dreadful example of management-speak.

Next on my list of hates is "hopefully", as today misused. The word is an adverb. The correct use is as in the sentence "to travel hopefully is better than to arrive". It does not mean "I hope" or "it is to be hoped".

Third might well be the use of "lay" for "lie".

Fourth I nominate the use of "alternative" for "choice" when there are more than two possible choices. There can only be two alternatives, otherwise they cannot be alternate to each other.

Fifth, may I figuratively excoriate split infinitives, at least in English? I understand that they are acceptable in American.

Over to other pedants....