There it was again...."there is only a few Days left" and to make matters worse in a commercial, (we all have hang ups and that is one of mine). I could no longer sit still, got up, googled it to make sure that I am not the one with a crazy misguidance but there it was plain for me to read "there are only a few Days left"  describing a plural happening. As the Day went on I got out my little Note book (yes I did) to finally confirm what I had been persistently correcting on TV (as if anybody could hear me) and there it was again "there is Days for everything" (famous Bull Rider), "there is five allowed" (Teachers Aid....real Life), "there is millions of them out there" ( Diego, Tiger in the movie Ice Age), "there is only eight of us" (Peaches in the movie Ice Age)...It is the last Day of School and we were watching movies....now on that note....I guess with all these grammar disasters around being shared at School is it any wonder then, spread around by young and old, movie or reality, that the result is in fact flawed grammar and with the examples a natural occurrence I imagine. We are the product of our environment. Here is where the change can occur! If we allow to listen to what we say we can turn things around, for as with everything change starts somewhere. We can let it begin with us! Pretty powerful... if you ask me.
It is almost as painful as what happened with "hey" (yes....another hang up)going back all the way, back to the Days of "Hazel". It is just as prominent as "is" instead of "are". It does matter what we say or it should anyways because People do listen! I suppose not to many have time anymore to say the name of the Person they are talking to with the scrolling and flicking on the phone during dinner time at a Restaurant or at home, while standing in the check-out line at any Store, etc., etc..
It is my hope and my wish that we would return to ways that serve as examples to the People around us, young and old, and show kindness and return importance towards one another when we are face to face.
~ I am a dreamer, yet I know that I am not the only one!! ~




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