Hahah, this is perfect.
Still being in school (going into grade 10
) I'm also unfortunately sensitive to grammar. It's sad, but just earlier I was flipping through my mom's University "Writer's Guide and Index to English" book. So, you've all already brought up some of the things I'd noticed.
"I could/n't care less."
Okay, this one I completely agree with. "I could care less" makes NO sense, but here's the real truth:
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could(n't) care less
Formerly (and too frequently) a lack of concern was expressed by "I couldn't care less." Recently the negative has been dropped; now "I could care less" is used to mean the same thing: "kids who never heard of Little Richard and could care less" (Ellen Willis, New Yorker).
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And then there's the apostrophe use after numbers. Here's what this book says, but honestly it's old, who knows its true accuracy:
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3. In plurals. An apostrophe has ordinarily been used in plurals of figures, letters of the alphabet, and words being discussed as words: the 1920's, three e's, the first of the two that's. But current usage is divided, and the plurals of figures in particular are often made with no apostrophe: "In the mid-1950s, Hoffa was scratching to take over the union" (Newsweek).
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I hope I offered a helping hand.