To get the rage when adults say Ta?

[SingingGerbil]

First world problem I am aware but this really gives me The Rage. Anyone over about the age of 5 should not be allowed to say this I am looking at you DP. In fact I am not that keen on under fives saying it either.

Phew, just had to get that out

It's not pointless as it has a meaning.

Dragged up in Wimbledon. Definitely not common, use 'Ta' frequently.

i say ta very much quite alot but i've southern and common as muck, hell i even eat sausage rolls on the street

I say "cheers ta" as a sign off to pleading emails. or "ta muchly". northern and proud, living on the south coast.

I'm Scottish and I don't say ta or cuppa. Don't drink tea either (unless herbal). I find cuppa grates on me far more than ta.

I'm Northern, everyone around these parts says it.

zing, that was what I figured, and so far so good.
Ta-ta as 'goodbye'... Oh, a whole other AIBU.
And wasn't 'our Cilla' a 'ta-ra' sayer rather than 'ta-ta'. I must make more effort to remember these important things...

yes, she did say "ta-ra", very good!

I'm not English and I used to wonder why she pretended to be a little trumpet!

Ooops, soz.

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Fucking KNEW that wouldn't work.

tara

do four stars

like that

It is funny what people consider "speaking properly". My parents are both educated people from the north of England and would say ta, love, and my dad used to use dialect words like summat or clemmed.

On the other hand, we were always told it was whingey and sloppy to speak with long As, to pronounce Ls as W (Middwesex, eg), or to miss Ts from the middle of words (wa'er for water). These are all southern things, apparently.

It's all pretty much just prejudice. It is fine if you want your DC to grow up speaking with your dialect, but it would be a vast shame to lose the richness of English dialects. Also calling "ta" baby talk just looks ignorant, when it's such an ancient word.

I don't say it but I don't think dialect is kids' stuff, either.....

s'up wi thee OP? Ta in't pointless, means 'thank ye', ai'ght? Nah 'ushup 'n 'ave a .

Bloody hell, it's almost impossible to type how I speak. I've had to add in all kinds of extra letters just to make it almost legible. Thank fuck for the written word. Somebody remind me to take a small chalkboard to carry round my neck next time I have to venture south of Chesterfield

Whaddya mean four stars?

Like ?

Ooooh, yes!

I can remember that one, cannot remember all those bloody square brackets.

Anyway, I say Ta rather a lot.

Personally it gives me the rage when southern softies put an R in everything.

Fucking PARSTA...LARTE...BARTH...

Oh, do grow up OP. If you're old enough to judge anything as being childish, you're old enough to understand how dialect works.

Well I do declare, as a southern softie myself I rather take issue with that regionist talk.
What is a Larte?
Do you mean Lattay/Latte?