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

[MikeRotch]

amen

why would you be standing in your bed, Leonie?

Katisha - it shouldn't really bother you because you would say on Saturday/Sunday, whatever - so on the weekend follows that pattern. Even if you were to add in a "the" - you'd still say "See you on the Sunday then".
"At the Sunday" is just very very wrong.

anybody done "different from" and NOT "different to"?

My pet hate, that one.

Yes but to follow that argument couldn't you conversely say that because you say "at the weekend" you can also say "at Saturday?"

Still bothers me for no good grammatical reason that I am actually aware of but would like to find one to support my unease.

Hmm, no, I'm afraid I prefer on to at where weekends are concerned.
Sorry!

I wouldn't say you could reverse it, Katisha but only because it would be minority "rule", iyswim.

YABU - we all speak a little differently to each other - I like it.

OK after a bit of googling I am reliably informed that "on the weekend" is American usage. (Cambridge Dictionaries Online)

OK I am unreliably informed...
I'm sure it's new here though, people never used to say "on the weekend" when I was younger...

I live quite near a laundrette. It makes me want to get my red pen out every time I pass by.

Hmmm the, 'done/did' thing really irritates me, but I get confused by the sat/sitting thing. And the word 'gotten' just how to I use it?
"I've gotten all confused now"... Think I'' stick with, "I am confused". I think I'll just avoid the tense where I need it... ;-)

I love all you pedants. Where would we be without you with your niggly irritableness? Sat over there, that's where!

People are like sheep- they go with the flow, unthinkingly.
'On the weekend', 'I'm sat here', 'th' east/angel/army', 'haitch', 'should of','disinterested' to name but a few 'fingers scraping the blackboard' moments.

A radio production of 'Dombey and Son' last year had the line ' We'll see each other on the weekends'. I suspect Dickens turned in his grave.

But it's uncool to care.

'on the weekends'.

Similarly:
on the grounds as in on the grounds of a building instead of in the grounds

named for instead of named after

I think "U" people call the weekend, "Friday to Monday" but my Jilly Cooper is a bit rusty

They never stay in "tyn" at any rate. Apparently.

Still thinking about "gotten". It does irritate me, but not when I think of it as it probably should have been - "I have begot", "We have begotten" surely?

Sean Kelly on Eurosport, commenting on the cycling "General Classiment". There is no such thing in English Sean Kelly! It is General Classification.

"Loose" for "lose" really annoys me. I never knew a Dutch or German person make this mistake, only native English speakers.

I'm a Northerner, love it and wouldn't change it for the world. I'm also guilty of 'where you at?'

'Borrow me a pen' pushes me over the edge though.

I have often been irritated by the 'loose/lose' confusion others seem to have.

However, I have been made to think twice since becoming familiar with that Ben Jonson poem where he says: 'I wish I could loose all father now' after his son has died.

Hmmmm. 'Loose' wouldn't really make sense in that context but 'lose' would. So perhaps the spellings used to be the same, or interchangeable. Or the words were closer in meaning then. Or I am misunderstanding the line. Or BJ couldn't spell.

And another thing : For Free

No

Either it's free or it's for nothing.

Gaah.

I love you Mike. You tell 'em.

Yes - what is it with 'gotten' lately?

I have read only the title: Bloody Hallelujah that someone has worked it out!!!!!
YAFUCKINGHOO!!!!

I sat watching television
I was sat watching television

Drives me MENTAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!