My mother's facebook status, this morning:
"Sarah loveing her boys lol xxx. 09:32 - Comment"

Some changes are generational however. The boyfriend and I got into a little hiccup yesterday about the proper use of the term "eg". He places the full stops in (Oxford English Dictionary) and I do not (Guardian Style Guide).

I look in horror when people at work use apostrophes to denote plurals of acronyms, but they state that is what they were taught at school.
Hell, when was the last time you saw someone complain about the phrase "to try and"? I recall that one in Captain Scarlet, so it's certainly not a new error... in fact it's now part of accepted standard English. So it's certainly more grey than people make out this stuff to be.

I have problems with my spelling and grammar so I end up triple checking everything and still getting bits wrong. It never hurts to try though. The result of all these grammatical and spelling rules should be that you can understand any text in English, no matter where it came from. You'll always get a tug from what older people understand vs what younger people understand unfortunately.
(mmmm curry doesn't really understand this sig lark, Thu 5 Feb 2009, 14:22, Reply)