You already know some of my pet peeves regarding incorrect usage of words and grammar. I have to keep repeating and returning to them because if you try to correct someone, they (and I hate the use of the plural pronoun to refer to one person) will keep on making the same mistake and will not forgive you, unless they’re a nut like me (you see?). I always thank anyone who has corrected me but I also always check the OED or Google or my grandfather’s pronouncing dictionary or whatever, afterward to make sure they’re right.

Here are a few irritations that keep recurring and you can check them. I just did. (Chicago Manual of Style. Fowler, Strunk & White, etc.)

When did people start saying the both of you? Maybe it was a transferred mistake that occurred when people were saying the two of you.

I think a transference occurred when people started saying bored of Instead of bored with. Probably someone was thinking of tired of.

Lie/lay is a lost cause, I fear, but I still have hopes for may/might. As you may remember, may is factual while might is hypothetical. Check them.

I’ve already written a blog on this date, so that’s enough of that.

I am constantly tempted by the sidebars sent to lure us into reading and wasting so much time. But...

I do sidetrack occasionally on a sidebar when it has something to do with food and health: 5 foods you should never eat; one tip to change your life/ belly fat/ eyesight/ whatever (oh, and sex life, but I ignore that, grateful for my fading memory). I got hooked last night on the difference between pre-biotic and pro-biotic. It took a long time to find out and of course it ended trying to sell me a miraculous product.

But it got me thinking of what I have learned over the last few months:

never eat tomatoes, or eggplant or potatoes (all nightshade)
never eat bananas
no sugar
no grains
no beans
no processed foods
no pasta
in fact, no flour (well, that’s wheat = grains)
no meat except organic (no antibiotics in the animals)

You can eat dark chocolate, every day, at least 70% You can drink coffee. Eggs are okay, this year.

I finally went to bed and missed writing my blog, so here it is.