Get Out Youir Piggy Bank

[L Verge]

(05-21-2019 04:48 PM)Steve Wrote:  

(05-21-2019 09:23 AM)L Verge Wrote:  Thanks, guys. I am not leaving this earth, however, until I teach Americans to not end sentences with "at" (as in "where's it at?). Every time my father would hear someone say that, he would mumble, "Behind the at." He has been dead for almost forty years, but I suspect he's rolling and tumbling in his grave over the almost constant use of that bad grammar now.

I also would like to eradicate the misuse of apostrophes. English was not my major in college, and I never taught English. However, I was raised in the same house with a father (high school diploma), mother (high school diploma), and a Victorian grandmother (6th grade education) who loved to read and were proud of the English language.

P.S. I have one bad habit that I need to correct, however. I use the southern dialect slang of "y'all..."

The Oxford English Dictionary would seem to disagree with you about ending sentences with "at", at least partially:

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/at

I notice that the two examples they give (out of a dozen or more) are termed "informal," which to me is a polite way of saying "Street English." I used to team teach with an English teacher who believed that slang and street English were perfectly acceptable as long as your meaning was understood. We argued about it all the time -- even though she became my best friend and my matron of honor.