"i am sitting here" right. "I am sat here" IS WRONG YOU FUCKERS

[MikeRotch]

amen

At a certain point in grammar, common usage over-rides rules.

Not quite the same but DP says toilIt instead of toilet and I want to inflict serious pain every time I hear him say it.

Actually, "I am seated" is correct. "Sitting" describes the act of sitting down.

"and I turned and said, and then she turned and said, and I went...."

My sister does this. "Then I turnt round and sayed then she turnt round and sayed..."

I get an image of people pirouetting as they argue

Calm down.

Ive never been up north, am a southerner born and bred and I say Im sat here waiting, rather than Im sitting here waiting.

and breathe......,.

This is funny. I was discussing this very topic recently with great friend from Australia and we both wondered how and why the Brits even use such strange adaptions of the language.

I amn't at all sure what you'd be saying about some of the English spoken in Ireland then, if sat here rather than sitting here bothers you.

I'm Northern and I HATE it when people say sat instead of sitting.

"I brought this" when they mean BOUGHT and "should of.." instead of should have are my two current most hated.

It's not northen, it's wrong. I am northern and I know plenty of southern people, and they all make the same mistake.

Also, a lot is TWO WORDS, not one.

Another I have seen on MN everyday for the past week: it is she did, not she done.

Is "everyday" one word in that context Leverkusen? I didn't know that.

By the way, I am ashamed to have expressed my irritation at people "sat crying" now that I have seen a thread title on this page saying exactly that.

Great timing OP

Sorry didn't mean 'everyday', I actually don't know! I meant the 'she did' 'she done' thing.

Not to worry DH says it's two however it is one word if you're wanting it to mean ordinary. Now we know (until superior pedants come along to correct DH)

Thank you, you took the words right out of my head.

You even hear it on the BBC

Every day.

My favourite bugbear at present: IndependENT, persistENT. Not with A-N-T at the end. Bejeesus.

I am aware of the fact that 'bejeesus' is not a proper word :)

can't some of you go and buy a basic intro book on linguistics and stop cluttering up the message boards with nonsense - you never know you might enjoy it

Oooh yes OP, I dislike 'I was sat/I am sat' too.

Another one I keep hearing: 'The dog/baby needs fed'....surely that should be 'feeding' or 'to be fed'? It seems to be a recent thing. Anyone know if it's regional? If so, where?

"barf means baff"

So how do you sing Baa Baa Black Sheep, then?

i can deal with the satting. its the ignorance about lay/lie that kills me. as in the past and present tense. 'i'm going for a lay down' is effing wrong!!!

My DH does the "I am sat" business and it irks the life out of me.

What's worse though is that he seems to think that inanimate objects have desires, eg "That soup wants stirring", "That sofa wants moving into the other room".

FFS

Please don't get me started on this. Everyday I hear people say 'fink' instead of 'think'. I've heard lots of people refer to a chimney as a 'chimley'
say aksed instead of asked.

Aaargggh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What about people who say 'done' instead of 'did'?

My colleague says this - I ask her if she's done something and she replies 'Yes I done it yesterday' AGH!!

I love her though