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To hate it when people miss out the word 'to'

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fiveacres · 26/05/2015 07:08

DS has picked it up.

'Hey, Mum, I want to go Florida!'
'you want to go TO Florida!'
'Yeah, that's what I said. I want to go Florida and -'

Argh.

I noticed this when I was teaching and it drove me crazy then - 'Can I go toilet?'

Grrrrrrr.

So am I being ridiculously anal or does anyone else loathe this? I also can't stand 'etc etc' which seems to be another thing DS is bringing home from school.

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hamiltoes · 26/05/2015 07:10

As a scot who rarely uses the word to unless its the number two YABU Grin

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Sirzy · 26/05/2015 07:11

In guessing it's a regional type thing as it's not something that generally happens here.

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TeacupTravels · 26/05/2015 07:11

Yup. Add "needs gone" or 'needs done" to the list....

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RaskolnikovsGarret · 26/05/2015 07:14

I don't know anyone who says any of these things, but they sound awful.

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eurochick · 26/05/2015 07:15

Very common around here (London/South East).

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fiveacres · 26/05/2015 07:16

It's possible it is a 'northern' thing, if one counts anything up from Birmingham as North Smile

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fiveacres · 26/05/2015 07:17

Funny cross post!

I've noticed it in both the west midlands and the north west. I hadn't considered it might be a regional thing - more a lazy, sloppy speech thing

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usualsuspect333 · 26/05/2015 07:19

It's a regional thing. I miss out the word to all the time.

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BagsyThisName · 26/05/2015 07:20

I thought it was an American thing that the yoof over here have picked up

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LindyHemming · 26/05/2015 07:20

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insancerre · 26/05/2015 07:21

I don't know anyone who speaks like that and I live in the north

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ScrambledEggAndToast · 26/05/2015 07:21

Where I'm from people say:

'I was led in bed'
I was led over there'


At first I thought I had misheard them but when the second person wrote it in a text message, I know that I wasn't wrong. Make's me AngryAngry

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fiveacres · 26/05/2015 07:23

Possibly Bagsy. No idea where it's from. but I wish it had stayed there!

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Wibblypiglikesbananas · 26/05/2015 07:23

Ditto insancerre - another northerner here.

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Sirzy · 26/05/2015 07:25

I'm north west and don't see it much. More something I would associate with Yorkshire

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Redhead11 · 26/05/2015 07:26

thankfully i've never heard that. My late DM was a teacher and used to confound the children who would come over and ask 'do you have a pencil?' by replying 'yes, thank you.' What they wanted was to borrow a pencil, but until they asked correctly, they didn't get one. For some of the kids, it took a very, very, very long time before they twigged and often only because another child, who had already gone through this process, clued them in.

the one that gives me rage is saying how instead of why. Very common in the Scottish Borders particularly.

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RebeccaCloud9 · 26/05/2015 07:27

I thought it was an Essex thing, they ALL say it on TOWIE, winds me up every time!

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Rivercam · 26/05/2015 07:28

I feel the same way about the Tesco strapline Every Little Helps.

Little is an adjective, so surely it should be Every Little Bit/saving/... Helps. It just sounds wrong to me.

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fiveacres · 26/05/2015 07:28

Well, we are not in Yorkshire, although I used to live in Cheshire.

I do have memories of witnessing a child talking, politely saying 'X please stop talking,' and being met with a furiously indignant 'HOW was I talking?'

Confused

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HappyFaceAndLovelyHair · 26/05/2015 07:29

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RebeccaCloud9 · 26/05/2015 07:29

(I know, I know, if I'm going to watch TOWIE, what do I expect?!)

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fiveacres · 26/05/2015 07:30

Well, rebecca ... Wink Although I watch Dance Moms so I can't really talk!

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bungmean · 26/05/2015 07:31

Not a Yourkshire thing. We are very proud of our t'

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bungmean · 26/05/2015 07:31

*Yorkshire

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BagsyThisName · 26/05/2015 07:32

Now you are reminding me of being desperate for the loo and having to work out that the teacher wanted me to say "please MAY I go to the toilet" not "please can I go to the toilet" before he would let me go.

He would have had the rage over "can I get a toilet"

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