Things

If you received a penny for every time an English teacher or parent corrected: a paper, news article, magazine, book, or speech for the use of the word "thing" we all would be financially secure.  Vivid thoughts of our parents and various elders correcting the grammar of a politician or news broadcasters, as if they could be heard through the television, are plentiful in the recess of our memories.  The correction wasn't really intended for the person on the television, nor to declare their discernment of proper and improper grammar, but for us to hear and assure we hear their voices every time it drops from the mind and rolls off the tongue.  Comments to not-so-subtly have us