Birdy_Cephon_Altera

Not OP, but the one excuse I hate is, "Well, it's not a professional environment, I'm just on social media, so what does it matter?" But what happens is those same people make the same mistakes when they are using professional correspondence at work. Habits are hard to break, especially bad ones.

Only when the broadcast the Sentence Diagramming National Finals on "The Ocho" every year. Boy, does that get intense!

Do you have a preference on "All of the sudden" vs. "All of a sudden"? Seems the latter is much more widely used these days, but I learned* it as "the" growing up, so it always sticks out to me like fingers on a chalkboard when I hear "a".

*(And speaking of "learned", how do you feel about Americans using "learnt" (and other similar type -ed/t words), when that is more of a British thing? Seems like some Americans will selectively adopt certain 'British-isms' in their writing, while not using others, and this one is one of the most common examples.)

How about shoulda coulda woulda? Or am I tryna annoy you too hard?