In Lieu...

In lieu of a longer post I'm writing about dialect and region and general habits of writing and speech (e.g. in Utah, people say "Oh my heck!"), I'll just ask a simple question:

Is it just my imagination, or is there a nationwide problem with students and prepositions? Some of my students seem to use some kind of "random preposition generator" device to decide which ones to use in their essays.

I'll do my best to get the other post up before I head to Lafayette for another conference.