This is a revelation for me: I never realized that other people are just as annoyed by this sort of thing as I am. Now I feel better! A little.

During a debate, my worthy opponent called me a sway-do intellectual. He lost -- grin!

I would not expect folk-singers to be bothered by regionalisms such as n'other or chimbley. These words add color to our songs and they are not invented by song writers, but by ordinary people.

However professional news readers, who are earning more money than I will ever see, are committing grammatical misusages I learned to avoid in the sixth grade.

I heard a recent news report about the floundering of the Russian submarine Kursk.

A national TV news program uses the expression "more on" such and such a subject. "More on education in a moment." (Education for morons?) I did get a chuckle when they announced, "When we return, we'll have more on George W. Bush."

Note to world leaders and diplomats: our country is not called the Unite States. There is a "d". Work on it.

Here are a few more for the litany: torturous for tortuous, fermiliar for familiar, preventative for preventive, athalete for athlete, mathmatics for mathematics, loan for lend.

=== Johnny in Oklahoma City

"The best way to expose a fool is to let him speak."