It seems that I could get all of my material from 60 Minutes. I pick on them because they should know better. In a show this past summer, Steve Kroft profiled Jon Bon Jovi. He said JBJ "could care less" about fans, or money, or, well, I really don't remember what came next because my brain seized at the very sound and I heard nothing afterward. There was just a shrill ringing in my ears, and a wringing of my hands.
Could care less. Amazing. If you're trying to convey how little you care, you would say "could not care less." Two negatives, zero caring.

I know this because someone nearly as snobby and a lot geekier than Yours Truly cares a whole lot more about Could Not Care Less.

Stupid “donkey” tricks?

We had a gentleman in the office the other day and he said, “Look to the bottom for the notes in the astricks.”  One would think, in our field (financial planning), especially the last two years, that “risk” is easily pronounced! Of course we can play the other way - his way - “ass trick.” It loses me every time! I can’t find it in a dictionary and I tend to think of it more as a compound word.

After years of newspaper editing and speech training, I have a few choice words to say about the beloved Mother Tongue. That's English, Love, a language that the chaps over the pond no longer speak well. We've not only improved upon their laws and measuring system, and football, and food, we've refined the language to something entirely else.

Well, some of us have.

I'm watching a series on television called The Ultimate Fighter. It's the Yanks against the Brits. Funny thing, this. As often as not, there are subtitles at the bottom of the screen when one of the Brits is speaking. You just can't understand the blokes.