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Your not alone. I still like whither, thither & whence
Is this just a case of old man shouts at cloud?
Europe ( including the UK geographicly) is changing, in 75 years the white ancestral people will be predominantly old and irrelevant while the second generation immigrants will fuel the economy and language will be hard to recognise. We couldn't understand English of 5 centuries ago, things are just changing faster because of electronic communication.
And pray what is wrong with hither?
we don't have royal academies such as french or spanish that determine proper usage, even Queen's English or received pronunciation is just another variety
Another thing that disturbs me is "no problem" when I thank someone. Why suggest that there's a problem in the first place?
Worse still, "I'll just double check". Please just check once, or better still, just go and have a look.
There are a few phrases & words that grill my goat, but on the whole I try not to let that stuff worry me too much: the whole English language is a melting pot of other languages & dialects, and the only constant in life is change. I'm 100% certain that most (if not all) of us are using words daily now that no-one had even heard when we were kids.
Knowing how to use words properly is great though: my friend who was the bass player in my last band used to hate with a passion most of the metalcore bands we tended to end up gigging with; he would quite often tell them after their set that they were 'amazing', which they always took as a compliment
It's the same thing as the loss of melody in music. There is so little melody in popular culture and young people don't seem to need/want it anymore. Commercial music is like commercial "speak".
Anyway, whatever...
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
do you say it "bath" like the vowel in "rat", or "bath" like the vowel in "car"?
and which is correct?