to hate the word 'ta'

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especially when I see it written in an email from my boss?

Every time my boss writes 'ta' instead of 'thank you' it makes it makes my eyeballs itch.

There is just something so dismissive of 'ta'. It isnt a proper thank you, it is something small children might say when given a biscuit. It isnt the response I expect from my professionally qualified boss when I send a piece of work.

What does 'bab' mean?

Ooh "Tommy K" is baaaad. I would hate that!

Oh I love Tommy K, we use it all the time. And Maccy D.

Can't bear ta though!

I've only ever come across Tommy K on MN so like to tell myself it doesn't exist in real life.

A friend calls peanut butter "peany b"

I'm going to call you Petty G.

That makes me feel a bit gangster

Can you tell I've never said that before?

Ahem. We say 'gangsta' Petty G. Keepin' it real, innit.

I can't stand ta either. When DS was tiny people would try to get him to say it when giving him something. I'd always correct it to thank you

One of my clients says ta in emails but I KNOW that he thinks that makes us on equal footing and he is just trying to reiterate our informal and unstuffy relationship. So, while I don't particularly like it, I appreciate the sentiment behind it. He isn't to know what I find acceptable or not, grammatically speaking, so I do my best not to think the worst of him for it.

One of my earliest memories is coming home from nursery using the word "ta" which id learned from the dinner ladies. My dad hit the roof

lol at the pleb dinner ladies.

I hate it, and I won't be teaching my ds to say it

PrimalLass if we stuck to only discussing new topics then MN would be a rather empty place!

But it's one of the particular 'take the stick out of your arse' threads that are started to put other people down. You must have known that you'd be referring to loads of MNers who say 'ta', surely?

A customer said it at work today, full grown adult I might add, thanks will do.

Yanbnu at all. I hate it when toddlers are taught to say ta instead thank you

Bab...mean 'love' in brum/black country. As in 'Olright bab?' for 'are you ok my dear?'. Assume it's short for babby with a short a vowel sound instead of baby. I like it, reminds me of my Nan.

A customer said it at work today, full grown adult I might add, thanks will do.

I'm a 'full grown' adult too. Probably said ta at least 10 times today. I have a linguistics degree from the MN favourite A RUSSELL GROUP UNIVERSITY and work as a copyeditor.

So there.

lol, thats me told.

Ta

Jaysus. It's just a word. Your boss probably likes you very much and feels relaxed around you. Don't go creating issues out of sod all.

The more I read about how it winds people up the more I've come to love the word - makes me feel all Scandinavian. Oh, and I sometimes use it and cheers in emails

I did a really interesting course on sociolinguistics. So now I'm convinced that 'anything goes' as long as we can be understood. You can't say that someone's dialect is 'wrong'.

I loved it when an (Australian) client used smiley faces in her emails. It made me feel all special

I'm going to engineer a situation tomorrow where I sign off with 'Ta and cheers me bab, extra Tommy K for you'.

I might drop 'peng' in somewhere too, I've been meaning to use that.