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Another thing that really annoys me is 'a couple items' rather than 'a couple of items'. Is it so difficult to include the preposition?

I've always known it as 'More haste, less speed' which does mean the same thing but is used as a cautionary proverb.

Not when you here them saying "There were free of them" & you are not sure whether they were telling you how many there were or that someone had been liberated from something. I am not talking about dialect (heaven only knows I can't say "the" correctly) but about the sloppy use of the English...

Another one that is creeping in to common parlance is free instead of three. As one born in Yorkshire this should only happen if negotiating a very large discount on a deal ;-)

I have a colleague who deals with Pacifics instead of specifics. May I say the two are oceans apart. I'll get my coat.