The English Language "Goes Missing"

Have you noticed that nothing and no one ever 'disappears' anymore? It 'goes missing'. In its continuing effort to keep dumbing down America, the news media now use an ungrammatical southern colloquialism for a real word.

Like the faddists they are, the news media must think 'He went missing' sounds cooler than 'He disappeared.' I heard the term 'went missing' in the south for years. If the media wants to get it completely right it should drop the 'g' from 'missing'. If they need to learn how to drop their 'g's' the media just needs to listen to our president talk.

The semi-literates in the media might also want to adopt another southern colloquialism for the word 'maybe.' Southerners say 'might could.' Then when someone asks you whether the English language 'went missing' you can answer 'might could.'

This way you can get rid of another concise, succinct word from the English Language and replace it with another more ungrammatical, illiterate two word combination.