| Y'know, every language changes every day, and it's an eminently democratic process: you can bemoan it but you can't do anything about it. People just find new ways of making themselves understood is all. Or they fail to make themselves understood, as some always have.
Looking back to a golden past of irreproachable grammatical stringency is misguided because that past never existed. Grammar rules gradually change along with everything else.
As for glottal stops, I hate them too but what can you do? They're fashionable, as Princess Diana all too painfully showed us.
"I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything."
-- Viscount Melbourne |