Annoying Words & Phrases

I talk to a lot of people on the phone at work and sometimes I can't tell if I'm talking to a man or a woman. When that happens, and I'm writing notes about the conversation after the call I use they instead of he or she.
 
In Words With Friends, they have these daily games against the computer which earn you points or coins or something. Anyway, they have a word scramble, and these were two of the unscrambled words. Are these really 2 words?
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In April 2024, President Biden signed a bill that would ban TikTok in the United States unless Chinese tech company ByteDance sells TikTok within a year. (The ban was included in a bill providing foreign aid for Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine.)

NPR tech editor Bobby Allyn today said, "ByteDance is waiting to hear whether or not the ban is legal or not." Here is what he should have said: "ByteDance is waiting to hear whether the ban is legal."

 
In April 2024, President Biden signed a bill that would ban TikTok in the United States unless Chinese tech company ByteDance sells TikTok within a year. (The ban was included in a bill providing foreign aid for Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine.)

NPR tech editor Bobby Allyn today said, "ByteDance is waiting to hear whether or not the ban is legal or not." Here is what he should have said: "ByteDance is waiting to hear whether the ban is legal."



And that's should have, not should *of* and thanks for getting it right.
 
And that's should have, not should *of* and thanks for getting it right.
That's when my father beat into me as a child. I don't mean literally of course, but I was corrected a million times for saying of instead of have.
 
The J. Geils Band had a #12 hit in January 1975 with Must Of Got Lost, written by lead singer Peter Wolf and keyboardist Seth Justman – who should have known better than to make such a mistake in the title.

 
Haha, that's another one. So you all know I love SiriusXMU, and the queen of indie DJs is Jenny Eliscu. She is the heartbeat of the channel, in terms of programming, and influence, and knowledge. But as recently as a year or so ago, she'd be interviewing some indie artist, and she'd keep saying "werd" as a follow-up to everything the artist would say. And I'm like, "That's so Y2K".
 
Maybe some day I will make a list of all the many hundreds of songs with bad grammar, such as Nina Simone's Ain't Got No, I Got Life, the Cookies' Don't Say Nothin' Bad About My Baby, Mick Jagger singing "I can't get no satisfaction" and the Backstreet Boys' A.J. McLean singing "“As time goes by, you will get to know me a little more better.”

I cringe every time I hear Paula Cole's I Don't Want To Wait, which begins “So open up your morning light and say a little prayer for I."
 
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