I love stories like this, Victoria. You brought a few ones I hadn't seen before to my attention. "Casted" makes my flesh crawl!. Lately, I have been irritated by writers who use "anyways" instead of "anyway." They probably shouldn't use "anyway" much anyway, but "anyways" is like nails on a chalkboard to me. I also dislike the use of "utilize" when "use" is the proper choice. To utilize is to use something for a purpose for which it was not originally intended, as in, "MacGyver utilized a Q-tip as a fuse." I once had a boss who did this constantly. It was as if the word "use" didn't exist for him. (I don't work there anymore and he's dead so I'm over it. Sort of.)