>>>And even BBC news reporters, once the bastion of the language, are saying "... the amount of people/years/other quantifiable subjects, etc ..."
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>>I yell back at the radio or TV over that one: NUMBER of people.
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>At the grocery store I always try to go through the line for people with 15 items or less.

That doesn't get me going near as quickly as when some group decides to rename something by mispronouncing the original name. The old airport here was the Robert Mueller (muler) Memorial Airport. When they moved the airport to Bergstrom (ex-Air Force Base), developers got ahold of the land and now it's a shopping/housing development called 'Miller' Center, but spelled the as the original. I'm sure people in the cars around me probably thought I was more than a little crazy hollering "It's pronounced MULER" at the radio ads