I won't go so far as to call it a pet peeve, but the use of "try and" instead of "try to"
seems undesirable. From New Scientist, 5 Oct 2002, p41 about preserving wrecked ships
in museums: ".... the best long term solution for most wrecks was not to try and
conserve them out of the water but simply to bury them once again."

I think the editor would have been justified in replacing "to try and" with "to try to".
Comment invited.