Well you caught me, I had just read the article and was trying to understand the problem.
But you are right spoken English is creeping into the dictionary and words like chickens are no longer considered wrong.
Perhaps one should blame the superficial understanding of English, especially among the teachers.
In spoken language, I rarely hear '
chickens' but yes, I do hear, '
anyways' and '
sports.' The correct way to say it is '
anyway' and '
sport.' There is nothing called '
anyways' and '
sports.' That's not English. I myself have been making these mistakes until recently.
Moreover, it is wrong to say '
a NRI.' NRI, as in Non-Resident Indian. The correct way to say is '
an NRI.' It's not about whether the starting letter of the Roman script is a vowel or a consonant, rather whether the starting sound is that of a vowel or a consonant.
As a British friend of mine had remarked, England has moved away from English while the Indians still practice the Queens language in the correct grammatical manner.
Very true, but with some exceptions.
I hear this often, "Oh, that ice-cream was
too good!" Now that is wrong. 'Too' always carries a negative connotation. You can say "What you are saying is
too good to be true," but you cannot say, if you really liked the ice-cream, "Oh, that ice-cream was
too good!" That's just wrong, and many Indians actually make that mistake.
I have been finding many mistakes in my own usage as well, and am making an effort to correct them.