The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #99614   Message #1989773
Posted By: RangerSteve
07-Mar-07 - 03:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: Declining Standards of English
Subject: RE: BS: Declining Standards of English
One of the many trade schools that advertise every five minutes on daytime TV has a commercial with the phrase "Hire Education" across the top of the screen. Not a skool that eyed care to go two.

Two things that really bug me: people who claim to have prostrate problems. Does that mean they can't lie down?

And people who talk about Lyme's Disease. (That's an eastern U.S. disease carried by tics. It's fairly common in the northeast and pretty serious). It's LYME disease - from the town of Lyme, Connecticut, where it was first discovered, not named after a guy named Lyme. It bothers me most when I hear doctors get it wrong. I want my doctor to be able to call a disease by its proper name or I don't think I can trust him to treat it properly.