[Ichneumon]

There is an epidemic of coworkers saying/writing, "mute" instead of "moot" and I'm waiting for Webster's to add, "nother" to the lexicon instead of "another."

I'm still bummed that some dictionaries have given up the fight and accepted "kudo" as proper usage.

Background: "Kudos" is a Greek word meaning "praise". It may happen to end with an "s", but it's not a plural. You can "give kudos" to someone (i.e. give praise), but you can't "give them a kudo". That's a incorrect as "give them a prai" instead of "give them praise".

And yet, a lot of people make that mistake, and now some dictionaries are throwing in the towel and allowing "kudo" as a legitimate word because that's how it's often used in "common usage". Sigh.

It may be "common usage" for a lot of people to pronounce "ask" as "axe", but that doesn't make it an acceptable alternative pronunciation...

[Doctor Stochastic]

And I resent the reworking of syndrome into sin-drome. Not to mention the misuse of hopefully.