Atrocities in English are committed every day. Here are three of the worst. You may be surprised, but hopefully you won’t literally explode with anger.

When we talk of words, even if we don’t know it, we tend to divide ourselves into two schools of thought – the descriptivists and the prescriptivists. Prescriptivists tend to believe that English has hard and fast rules, and that language change, particularly when vulgar, should not be included in dictionaries. Thus, they will get very upset at split infinitives and (unlike Churchill) ending a sentence with a preposition.

When an editor rewrote Churchill’s words to avoid ending a sentence with a preposition, he is said to have angrily responded, “This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.”

– Baden Eunson

via Hopefully, literally, begs the question: the three most annoying misuses in English.