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creese

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Hahaha. That's what I tell her! She's the only one from Clifton, the rest are from Fishponds/Filton, and ironically, shes the only really posh/snobby one!

 

Must be something in the air

 

Originally from Eastville, a shout away from the Rovers Ground. Now Ikeal.

 

Now living nearer to my origins in Zummerzet.

ahuxham

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Originally from Eastville, a shout away from the Rovers Ground. Now Ikeal.

 

Now living nearer to my origins in Zummerzet.

 

Ahh, I get confused by the Somerset language/dialect most of the time when accents are really heavy. Was born in Johannesburg, a world away.

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My main pet hate is definitely 'like'. Even the brightest children use it every other word, and it makes them sound absolutely brainless. It is possible not to - my children were brought up to speak properly and I am sure they use 'like' with their friends, but not at home, or when talking to teachers or at work or whatever.

Another one is 'disinterested' used where they mean 'uninterested'.

 

and..'At this moment in time..' - do you mean 'Now'?

 

Then there is 'who' and 'whom' but frankly incorrect usage of that is almost universal now.

 

In Dorset they say 'Where's that to' as well

In the playground they play a chasing game where someone is 'on it'. When I was little, in Bucks, we just played 'IT'

 

A 'Correct Speech, Spelling and Grammar' group would be good!

creese

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Ahh, I get confused by the Somerset language/dialect most of the time when accents are really heavy. Was born in Johannesburg, a world away.

 

How about this. A virtual prize of no monetary value or substance to anyone translating Adge Cutler's Thees Got'n Whur Thee Casn't Back'n Asn't? or at least what activity he is referring to. WITHOUT using Google etc.

 

 

Jo'burg, I travelled through there last month. Do you get fed up with people thinking you are Australian. I'm not too good apart from a few words of Sotho but I do understand a fair bit of Afrikaans, as it it quite Germanic.

mac_shinobi

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My main pet hate is definitely 'like'. Even the brightest children use it every other word, and it makes them sound absolutely brainless. It is possible not to - my children were brought up to speak properly and I am sure they use 'like' with their friends, but not at home, or when talking to teachers or at work or whatever.

Another one is 'disinterested' used where they mean 'uninterested'.

 

and..'At this moment in time..' - do you mean 'Now'?

 

Then there is 'who' and 'whom' but frankly incorrect usage of that is almost universal now.

 

In Dorset they say 'Where's that to' as well

In the playground they play a chasing game where someone is 'on it'. When I was little, in Bucks, we just played 'IT'

 

A 'Correct Speech, Spelling and Grammar' group would be good!

 

Better not speak around you then as I won't live to see another day haha

creese

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In Dorset they say 'Where's that to' as well

In the playground they play a chasing game where someone is 'on it'. When I was little, in Bucks, we just played 'IT'

 

A 'Correct Speech, Spelling and Grammar' group would be good!

 

That stretch up to here too. 'Where you bin to?' Where's that pen to?'

 

I like regional dialect and think it good to speak both that and proper English, with an emphasis on both.

 

Another hate for me is 'Fing' it's 'Thing'

joe90bass

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Leave me on - As in "the computer won't leave me on my password". I don't know why, but it makes me mad when the kids in school say it, and it's not just one or two, it's nearly all of them! :evil_twisted:
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I like regional dialect and think it good to speak both that and proper English, with an emphasis on both.

 

 

I think there's a huge difference between dialect and wrong English although I'd guess that wrong usage today may well become normal English in the future - languages do evolve over time.

 

One of my pet hates is the way words are slightly mispronounced which then gets worse leading to misspelling and then a pronunciation to match. The classic example is "would've" that drifts into something like "woulduvv" and then becomes "would of"

 

The nightmare following this is when it goes the other way - somewhere on here today I'm sure I've seen someone use "'ve" instead of "of" which is quite frightening :-)

mac_shinobi

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I think there's a huge difference between dialect and wrong English although I'd guess that wrong usage today may well become normal English in the future - languages do evolve over time.

 

One of my pet hates is the way words are slightly mispronounced which then gets worse leading to misspelling and then a pronunciation to match. The classic example is "would've" that drifts into something like "woulduvv" and then becomes "would of"

 

The nightmare following this is when it goes the other way - somewhere on here today I'm sure I've seen someone use "'ve" instead of "of" which is quite frightening :-)

 

Which is why I type would have, I would much rather type would have then have would've be misinterpreted. My English is not brilliant - most likely at least 5 mistakes in these 2 lines lol

creese

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Which is why I type would have, I would much rather type would have then have would've be misinterpreted. My English is not brilliant - most likely at least 5 mistakes in these 2 lines lol

 

Then instead of than. Sorry couldn't resist. ;)

Dos_Box

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Being called 'Mate' by a spotty teenager in a service role and people who talk as if they are in a US ghetto when in fact they live in middle class suburbia.
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"At the end of the day" really winds me up. A few other of my most hated phrases are.

 

Innit, lolz and any other abbreviated cr*p teenagers seem to spount out their noise holes!

danrhodes

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people who talk as if they are in a US ghetto when in fact they live in middle class suburbia.

 

@Dos_Box - I agree this is very annoying, there epople would get shot within seconds if they actualy went to the "Ghetto"!

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Ran RM CC3 at a previous school. Whenever I went to any RM training courses or "Technical" conference, I couldn't help but be irritated by the fact that every RM employee appeared to start their sentence with the word "So..." . Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me? Do they have internal training session at RM where they say " So...You need to disregard all your previous knowledge of good sentence structure and tack the word "so" on at that start. I have expect any RM press releases to start with the word "So.."

 

Ridiculous

Hightower

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One of my biggest pet hates is when staff (even the boss) calls our Sharepoint install the 'VLE'. "No, Sharepoint is a glorified bulletin board that we are soon to be getting rid of - MOODLE is our 'VLE'".

 

Do we use Sharepoint to help deliver any lessons or teaching resources? NO! That's what we use Moodle for, hench why it is given the title 'Virtual Learning Environment'.

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Apostrophe abuse. There's no excuse for it.

 

Much of what has already been said, including there/their/ they're etc. The less and fewer is also a big one with me.

 

Sat and sitting/seated.

 

"I am sat at my computer"

 

No you're not, you're sitting at your computer.

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