A veteran newsreader on our local CBS affiliate needs vocabulary lessons.

[Stinky The Clown]

How can one be a news anchor in a significant teevee market and read the word "gravitas" and pronounce it

grah VEE tis

We are constantly reminded of the dearth of real journalists.

[pinboy3niner]

1. Re-com-men-DED

[madamesilverspurs]

2. Not long ago

one of our local newscasters was reporting on the rising price of gas. I changed the channel mid-sentence after he said, "The price has went up..."

Meanwhile, at the local newspaper, the editors don't edit. Plurals routinely have apostrophes; "there," "their" and "they're" are routinely misused, as are "your" and "you're", and one story referenced the "days of your."

I used to have neighbors who got their kids to read the newspaper by paying them a dime for each error they found. The exercise hansomely augmented their allowances.

[RebelOne]

3. I was a copy editor for 30 outdoors magazines until 2010.

Now I am appalled at all the grammatical errors in newspapers and TV news reports. And yes, the misuse of their, there and they're drive me crazy. And apostrophes in plural nouns make me want to scream. I wonder whether some people ever learned correct English and grammar in school or if they even went to school. Oh, and many do not know the difference in the usage of it's and its.

[DiverDave]

4. Have them post on here

there are plenty of people that will tell you you aint writing it right.

[Ilsa]

5. Overuse of the word "literally" to

add excitement and punch up a story is my pet peeve. 99% of the time it isn't literal.