American irritants

WHATEVER the experience, it seems, whether it’s your career path or recovery from illness, you’ve been on a ‘journey’, despite the fact you haven’t gone anywhere.

MIKE DURAND, St Buryan, Cornwall. THE Americanism that annoys me (Letters) is the renaming of refurbished New Street Station in Birmingham as Grand Central.

W. PARKER, Solihull, W. Mids. I HATE the trendy phrase ‘from the get go’. What on earth is wrong with ‘from the beginning’? M. OLIVER, Chelmsford, Essex. I THOUGHT ‘absolutely’ was a modern usage until I heard Marshal Matt Dillon say it in a TV repeat of Gunsmoke.

E. SHEPHERD, Newcastle. BAN the phrase ‘for free’ — it’s either free or for nothing.

DAVID EDWARDS, Leighton Buzzard, Beds. EVEN TV presenters say ‘ should of ’, ‘could of’ and ‘would of’.

Y. CHALLANS, Sheffield. YOU right, right? I’m all right, you right? I’m right. That’s all right then. B. WOODLAND, Poole, Dorset.