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Anythink. Everythink

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luckylavender · 25/09/2023 15:51

Is it just me or do people use everythink & anythink instead of everything & anything all the time now? Books, television, news... it really bugs me.

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TheShinmeister · 25/09/2023 20:34

My hairdresser has bought a house in a “cul de sacked” 😡

msmonstera · 25/09/2023 20:21

In Ireland. A woman in my work would be only bleedin' trilled wid dis tread.

JaneJeffer · 25/09/2023 20:07

PuttingDownRoots · 25/09/2023 19:44

The audacity of people having accents...

Ah look sure you know yourself.

People on here would lose their minds if they came to Ireland Grin

YeOldeBuxomWench · 25/09/2023 20:02

Have you been watching Eastenders OP?

I did argue over hypochondriac and hyperchondriact once. I did doubt myself, but autocorrect is telling me I'm right. 😀

DontGiveMeThatOldCrap · 25/09/2023 20:00

Don't get me started -

"Right" at the end of a statement - eg. "That's expensive, right", or "I know, right".

"Like" - " I was like tired, like, so I went to bed, like early"

Burgalry instead of burglary
cutelry instead of cutlery

crumblylancs · 25/09/2023 19:59

Or the worst methinks

MariePaperRoses · 25/09/2023 19:56

Gemma Collins vibes.

PuttingDownRoots · 25/09/2023 19:44

The audacity of people having accents...

SallyWD · 25/09/2023 19:42

To be honest, I noticed it far more frequently when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s. Don't often hear it now.

StaunchMomma · 25/09/2023 19:22

Mummysgogetter · 25/09/2023 18:56

What about when people say “hospikul” instead of hospital

I have a friend from Bolton who says that.

And likkle.

JaneJeffer · 25/09/2023 19:20

luckylavender · 25/09/2023 19:15

@JaneJeffer - no

That's very strange then.

StaunchMomma · 25/09/2023 19:19

It's a step up from anyFINK!

Am currently listening to an audiobook by a podcaster I love - I'm going to have to stop, buy the book again and read it myself as all of the 'wiv' 'worf' 'fings' 'uvver' etc are driving me BATTY!!

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luckylavender · 25/09/2023 19:15

@JaneJeffer - no

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MagpiePi · 25/09/2023 19:01

Using ‘f’ instead of ‘th’ irritates me.

  • I fought I’d arx about somfink
  • I bought (brought!) free of vem
JaneJeffer · 25/09/2023 19:00

luckylavender · 25/09/2023 18:56

@MsFrost - I've having quite a stressful time so I've been immersing myself in easy to read novels that I can get engrossed in without having to work on the plot. So the last 3, Nicci French, Amanda Prowse & Jane Casey. Currently reading a Jodi Piccoult.

But is it written as dialogue?

Mummysgogetter · 25/09/2023 18:56

What about when people say “hospikul” instead of hospital

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luckylavender · 25/09/2023 18:56

@MsFrost - I've having quite a stressful time so I've been immersing myself in easy to read novels that I can get engrossed in without having to work on the plot. So the last 3, Nicci French, Amanda Prowse & Jane Casey. Currently reading a Jodi Piccoult.

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Theoldwrinkley · 25/09/2023 18:54

And since the covid thing, everything slightly out of the normal range is 'unprecedented', be it weather, inflation, interest rates, weather (again). Drives me nuts.

SisterAgatha · 25/09/2023 18:53

Caribbeans say arks. I know way more people of Caribbean descent than I do Americans and have never heard anyone else use it. 😕

JaneJeffer · 25/09/2023 18:53

Americans that say whenever instead of when
Must be descended from NI folk

WednesdayLounge · 25/09/2023 18:52

I like it but that's because years ago I had a wonderful friend who used to say those, she wasn't ever aware, but it used to make me smile.

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luckylavender · 25/09/2023 18:52

ntmdino · 25/09/2023 16:21

The worst one, for me, is "nucular".

Even had a few of our serving Cabinet saying it on TV once or twice. As a general rule, I feel that if you can't actually say "nuclear", you shouldn't really be anywhere near the organisation in charge of it.

100% this

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MyPurpleHeart · 25/09/2023 18:51

Also the older I get the use of the words 'like' and 'um' make my skin crawl

MyPurpleHeart · 25/09/2023 18:50

Omg a thread after my own heart

Americans that say aks instead of ask. Americans that say whenever instead of when. A particular American vlogger comes to mind 'whenever I was 17 I went to prison in the state of Florida' eh?

MsFrost · 25/09/2023 18:47

luckylavender · 25/09/2023 16:15

I've been reading a lot of novels recently & honestly it's everywhere.

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What novels are you reading?