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Several come to mind.

I never subscribed to the idea that "data" suddenly transformed into a singular noun. It's as if we suddenly moved wholesale to the metric system without even any real debate on the subject.

There are several less-common verbs that seem to be frequently cast recently as no longer having separate forms for various tenses. I'm struggling to think of the two or three I see every week or so, where the over-simplistic lazy approach of adding a suffix is commonly used now. The verb "slide" is not one, but it comes to mind I guess because at least one offender starts with "s." I have yet to see "slided" in use, but it would be the equivalent, with "slid" having been discarded.

And a more general "bone" is what seems like an overall deterioration in the quality of editing and proofreading in journalism. Onerous grammatical and even spelling errors feel rampant these days, even in headlines. Or is it just my growing curmudgeon?