When I was growing up in the '50's and '60's, the best public English spoken in this country was by the network news commentators--like Walter Cronkite, Douglas Edwards, John Chancellor and a host of others. Their news scripts were edited carefully before broadcast to remove/reword misspoken words and phrases.
The "fingernails on chalkboard" error for me today is the egregious misuse of the reflexive pronoun, myself. Myself should be used only in extremely limited and specific circumstances--almost none of which have occurred when myself is used today.
"I hurt myself trying to chop wood without instruction." Correct
(One I hear on television a lot these days...)
"If you would like to comment on this program send an email or tweet to myself or Sarah." Wrong, wrong, wrong...on TWO accounts. First off, it should have been "to Sarah or me." Note the order...you should always come last in the list. And, it should always be "to me" not "to myself." The way to tell if a pronoun is wrong in a compound structure "pronoun AND some other name, object" is drop the other name or object, and see how it sounds. You wouldn't say "send the comment to myself", would you? I hope not.
Ms. Tree, as a fellow bleeding heart liberal I usually agree with you but, you are doing a disservice to young people by not expecting excellence from them--especially in their first presentations (resumes) to the business world. If one can not spell or use the English language correctly, one can not present to and convince others of their "intelligent thoughts." (Allowances for foreign-born, but not for born and raised in Plano.) I used to work with a young woman at Texaco who could make a computer do everything except wash dishes, but who couldn't spell cat, and seemed to be rather proud of it. One had to read her emails out loud and phonetically to figuring out what the hell she was trying to tell you. She kept complaining to me about not getting promoted above programmer. I kept telling her that she needed to make some effort to spell and write correctly. As a computer programmer, she refused to see the value of either activity. When I left Texaco several years later, she was still a programmer (an entry level position) because that was the one thing everyone was sure she was good at.