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I automatically assumed that the OP had been discussing this with Peter Noone, lead singer of the 1960s group Herman's Hermits, but doesn't yet know him well enough to refer to him by his first name....
It's also "There ARE a few people", not "There's".
I was about to comment on this. 'There's ' has now passed into common usage even on official forms and I've seen it on things my DS has brought home from school. Not even just things that the teacher has knocked up herself, but obviously centrally/nationally-produced resources. It irritates me very much as I'm sure that, if my DS wrote "There isn't many people....", he would (rightly) be corrected - but then he receives an exercise with "There's lots of people...." printed on it.
I winced when he started reception and there were little learning-based decorations around the classroom. One had a picture of a short caterpillar and a picture of a longer one and it asked "Which is the longest?" I don't expect them to teach the concepts of comparative and superlative in reception, but they should at least be laying the correct groundwork.
I don't know where my DS has picked it up from, but he sometimes comes out with the 'like' thing. Thankfully, not the hovering-slap-hand-inducing insertion of it between every word in a sentence, but as in "I was like" rather than simply "I said" or even "My response was" etc. I ALWAYS gently correct him and tell him that it isn't good English, as if we don't do so now, it will become ingrained as normal and acceptable before very long; however, it's become so ubiquitous, it's only a matter of time before somebody complains to me when he innocently corrects them or their child for saying it.
YY to the 'loose' instead of 'lose' confusion. Ironically, I find a lot of people who write loose when they mean lose will also write chose when they clearly meant choose. Yes, I know that English is very irregular, but if it's your native language, you really should try to learn it correctly.
Also, I know it's been in use for a very long time, but am I the only one who hates it when 'woman' is used as an adjective? Nobody would ever say "I spoke to a man shopkeeper today". It's origins were clearly historical and sexist in intent: by default, you would expect somebody to be talking about a man unless they specify otherwise that it was a woman, in which case you both take a moment to be amazed and mop your brows at the idea that a woman might be a functioning member of society. However, even if you ARE stuck in the past or a present-day headline-writer for the Daily Mail - or on the rare occasion where it might be necessary to specify the sex of the person in advance before it becomes obvious when you say the person's name and/or pronouns - THE ADJECTIVE IS 'FEMALE'.