grammar question

Again diverging from the grammar topic - but I have to report that the commentator on the Open Championship has just mentioned 'big solid drops of rain'. I do hope they're not!

You and I are in a small minority on 'myriad', shysal. Greek for 10,000, a unit in the army. I think the boat has sailed on this bugbear!

I often read 'a myriad of' in books, but it does not need the 'of'.

In my local area, 'I seen' and 'I done' are commonly used in place of 'I saw' and 'I did'. It sets my teeth on edge, especially when said in a pseudo-posh accent!

'Somethink' is frequently said by commentators on both radio and T.V!

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I am so sick of hearing everyone now saying 'fink and fote' and 'sumfink and muffink'.

Maybe just me, but the ubiquitous,"for free" is wrong,isn't it?
Shouldn't it be just,"free" or "for nothing"?

'Can I get' instead of 'please may I have' is an Americanism I think. Seems to be creeping in and annoys me to death! My younger nephews and nieces have started to use it but it's not up to me to comment. Same with should of instead of should have. My DD sometimes jokes that I must have (of!) been brought up posh when I say anything about grammar. Not true at all but my parents were sticklers about us speaking and spelling correctly.

Which reminds me - was researching some local builders on-line yesterday and one has a page of customer comments. The builder has pointed out that these are unadulterated comments and therefore spelling and GRAMMER have not been corrected!

My bugbear (in addition to all those already listed) is "comprised of" - for example "the house is comprised of 2 bedrooms, a bathroom, kitchen, living room".
Comprise means "be made up of" or "consist of", so the house comprises 2 bedrooms, a bathroom etc. So when people tack "of" on the end they're saying the houses consists of of 2 bedrooms...

When students used 'different to' or 'different than', I used to point out that if they used 'differ', they wouldn't say 'I differ to/than you'. At least I hoped not.
I wouldn't use 'the both' myself, but it's a perfectly good dialect use in Scotland (the baith) and, I think, the North East.

What about hanged; people are hanged, meat is hung. People are not hung.

"haitch" &" bored of" are real irritants, and so is "the both"!. Should be either "the two" or "both".

I get annoyed when people say "I am liking" instead of "I like". Am I wrong to feel this way?

Yes. I want to scream when phone sellers say something like " would that be Ok for yourself?" Aargh.

What about people who say "nucular" when they mean "nuclear"? You'd be surprised how often I hear that on tv and radio.

Can I get a burger please?

'I should like' or 'I would like' when making a request? I sometimes write 'should', which sounds rather formal, but say 'would' - crazy!

I remember my mother complaining about me using 'different than' when I was a kid. This'd be fifty years ago. I won't have heard Americans using it. I lived in Hull at the time so maybe people there used it.

'I should of' rather than 'I should have'

Myself is over used, as in, Myself and my partner enjoyed the theatre last night. Nearly as bad as Me and my partner enjoyed the theatre last night, which is very commonly used.

'Different than' is standard American English. UK English uses 'different from' and (less elegantly) 'different to'.

A pet hatred of mine is the non-reflexive use of such as 'myself' or 'yourself'. An example from a letter I received - "Feel free to call myself for more information". I gently pointed out that only you can call yourself, and only I can call myself... but there was no answer! Of course, what is usually meant is 'me'. but people are suspicious of short simple words!

'Different than' certainly has a place somewhere though!

I know it looks a bit dodgy written down, but it's just a part of our language, as are all the other 'wrong' ways of saying things...

Or how about 'it was different from how I had imagined it would be'?

Should that be 'it was different to what I had imagined it would be' or 'it was different from what I had imagined it would be'?

What about different than? As in, 'it was different than I had imagined it would be'?