Musing

 Slow news day here, but aren't they all. 

My mother didn't have much formal education due to circumstances beyond her control. She was not a critic of grammatical usage or of the language patterns of others.  But I remember a few of her pet peeves, or more accurately, observations,  about how words were used.  And she was correct.

  I would say, for example, that the cat climbed up the pole. She would say she didn't know why I would say cimb up. Why not just climb.

 She would wonder how it was possible for her to follow the directions on her pill bottle, which said "Take one pill twice daily."  Seems wrong, she would say.