Colleague's speech patterns annoying me

[cardboardPeony]

I think I probably ABU but I have a colleague who uses phrases like "X is going toilet". This really grates on me but I don't know how to say that it does or if I'm just being unreasonable and it's a regional thing.

Also we work with children and therefore should be using the language we want them to use, especially as lots of them are just learning English, but I think I am going to sound like a major pedant bringing it up.

[OrangeKitchen]

Honestly have never heard 'going toilet' before but YANBU, it's awful.

[happypoobum]

This would really grate on me too. I am not sure I would be able to bring it up though................

I also get stabby when I hear people say "It cost twenty pound" It's pounds FFS!!! Or, "he lived there for thirty year" ARRRGGGGGHHHH!!!

[Clayhead]

I would say "Going toilet".

It's a regional thing.

[Jinglebellsandv0dka]

Defo regional!

[Clayhead]

Maybe I'm the annoying colleague?

[hazeyjane]

How are you going to bring it up?! You can't just say, 'the way you speak really grinds my nuts, could you change the way you speak,please'!!

[IEatCannibals]

In what region do people talk like that?

[IEatCannibals]

Is it a south west thing?

[DoinItFine]

YABU

Far better for the children to learn that English is a language with lots of regional variations that that it is acceptable to think the way you speak makes you better than other people.

[PalcumTowder]

Midlands here and people would say "going toilet". I don't think you can say anything, really.

[Flowerpower321]

That would annoy me too, particularly if you work with children- it's not regional, it's wrong and makes you sound uneducated.

[cardboardPeony]

Exactly hazey how do I bring it up without sounding strange?!
I always say oh X went to the toilet but never explicitly mention the lack of "to"

In terms of region I'm London.

[YoScienceBitch]

Definitely a south west thing!
Going toilet, going shop, going pub...

[BratFarrarsPony]

"Going toilet"- - oh no, do people really use the word 'toilet' in company?
Horrendous.

[IEatCannibals]

Well I'm in the midlands and Ive never heard it. Must be very regional.

[cardboardPeony]

Doin i don't think I'm better than anyone else it's just I genuinely hadn't heard anyone say it before (and I used to live in the south west! So I probably did but i don't know why I didn't notice it)

[BratFarrarsPony]

Why do you have to talk about people going to the 'toilet' anyway? or am I missing the point?

[Edhilaria]

It's a Bromley, Bexley thing too, they all do it, 'I'm going Bluewater' is a regularly used phrase in my office.

[DoinItFine]

What makes you sound uneducated is thinking standard English dialects are "wrong".

[cardboardPeony]

Brat what do you say instead of toilet? If the children need to go to the toilet they ask to go to the toilet. What are they meant to say? Can I go relieve myself?

[hazeyjane]

I really don't think you should mention it, it's just the way this person speaks.

Children will come across all sorts of different ways of speaking.

[Cloudhopping]

YABU. Maybe the way you speak annoys someone else. We are a country of many accents, regional variations etc I think you need to get over yourself.

[IEatCannibals]

I used to know someone from Bristol who would say "going Asda". And I would look at him like

[YoScienceBitch]

You can't really say anything though even if it annoys you. It would be like you asking me to stop being Cornish.

[cardboardPeony]

I'm more than willing to accept ABU. I genuinely didn't realise it was a regional thing rather than a grammatical thing. I'm sure people find some of my speech patterns annoying too!