Although I am a stickler for all things linguistic, I have learned to accept, over time, individuals' idio-sin-crazies.
My main peeve now is people who should know better. I mean journalists and television documentary writers, whose grammatical lapses would have my junior-high teachers rolling in their graves. When I am listening to a learned-sounding commentator come out with "The significance of all these discoveries are... ", I cannot but correct him out loud, which is annoying to Joe, I'm sure.
And when a screen-writer (DR's Panni and Pogue will certainly agree) puts his own lack of knowledge of English into the mouth of a supposedly well-educated character, I cringe, I cringe. Ah yes, just last week I shouted, "Maybe the Star Trek writer didn't know the difference, but why didn't Patrick Stewart correct him?"
Pedantic? Not me. It's just that, if I and my classmates in Oklahoma could master the difference between lie and lay at the age of twelve, why can't a middle-aged professional wordsmith?