Wainy316 Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 For instance my sentence would read "How about people what say" Usually apparent more in badly spoken English than written. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted June 26, 2015 Moderator Share Posted June 26, 2015 Yeah there's 2 abuses of 'what'. There's replacing 'that' with 'what' like above, and there's adding a completely superfluous one to a sentence like what I just did here. Strictly speaking, grammatically the latter is probably just about OK in that it isn't breaking any rules, even if it sounds strange and makes the person sound a little less bright. The former though. I'll be kind and assume it must be a dialect thing in certain places, because it does tend to be used more commonly by certain accents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 26, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted June 26, 2015 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted June 26, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted June 26, 2015 Companies that blatantly change your email settings every now and then so you start getting spam again. Tapatalk being the latest culprit. Just **** off. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Someone on Facebook posted "Dont normally like Fleetwood Mac but think I will get their latest album" Their latest album is a greatest hits, if you dont normally like Fleetwood Mac, surely a greatest **** hits is the last thing you would get. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderPower_14 Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 My wife, who is otherwise very well spoken, says "used of it" instead of "used to it". It **** drives me mental. I have no idea where she gets it from because neither of her parents do it. I've started interrupting the conversation to correct her every single time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Since moving to Oxfordshire I have noticed people say "I'll tell you for why" instead of just "I'll tell you why". Why? Just why? Will somebody tell me for why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 well, whilst we're at it, for some reason my parents have taken to calling sandwiches 'sangwiches' they never used to, now they both do it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted June 26, 2015 Moderator Share Posted June 26, 2015 One that gets me is the "Let's see where we're at" turn of phrase which has almost completely replaced "Let's see where we are". Bloody yanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted June 26, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted June 26, 2015 well, whilst we're at it, for some reason my parents have taken to calling sandwiches 'sangwiches' they never used to, now they both do it Hahaha... That tickled me. Sangwiches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Some people say I'll write you and some say I'll write to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted June 26, 2015 Moderator Share Posted June 26, 2015 Yes! Or "I visited with someone". No, you visited them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 It doesn't piss me off though, I mean you wouldn't say I'll email to you or I'll telephone to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Oftentimes I get pissed off by the use of 'oftentimes' as a single word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrinityRoadSteps Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 My particular bugbear is people who say "Can I get" And anyone who says "like" around 100 times in each sentence 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 26, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted June 26, 2015 My particular bugbear is people who say "Can I get" And anyone who says "like" around 100 times in each sentence Beat me to it, I was just about to post about "can I get". Really irritates me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 How about 'can I take'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 26, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted June 26, 2015 The prepositions thing seems to be a common divergence between American and British English. A Brit will write TO you, an American will write you. A Brit will protest ABOUT something, an American will protest something. But... A Brit will visit you, and American will visit WITH you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 I'm guilty of "Lemme get a..." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob182 Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 (edited) On my drive home from work, I drive past a house with a van that has the Wolves badge on it. It's some self-employed dingle who's business has the tag line 'No job to big or small' on the van. Every day I drive past and think of shouting out the window that he's missing an 'o'. In the last week or two, he's now had that tag line written on a car that is occasionally parked outside his house too. Plonker. Edited June 26, 2015 by Rob182 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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