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.

Can you get in there too?

Actually, I can handle "Ta". Its glaringly bad spelling of easy words that, I dont count people dyslexics or people who just arent great at spelling in this.

But my friend who when typing:

Lying
Dying

Spells them:

Lieng
Dieng

Gives me the rage.

Ummmm.......apostrophes need love too you know.

Ta (and t'raah) are normal for me (Mancunian) but it wouldn't have occurred to me to teach it to a small child as a short-cut.

I love them so much, I dont use them, dont wanna work them too hard.

Bab is short for baby but it's used to refer to any child or teenager so the bab is your child. orite.

Oh tarar a bit

That's what we said at our school.

orite.

I cannot stand it when people say "yous" ("what are yous all doing tonight"). I'm sure there's no such word as yous. It makes my stomach do flip flops and my eyelid to twitch.

I know that's nothing to do with the word ta.

I don't mind ta.

perthmom
But yous or youze is a quirk of dialect (the Irish say youze all the time) much like mom is. Try not to be so discriminatory.

To be honest the worst things are the Americanisms. My kids say math and meds!

No it's maths and medicine.

squoosh

It's what nurseries teach small children to say before they can manage thank you, isn't it? I don't really like the word but in that context I can understand it - they are teaching them to be polite.

I don't really come across adults saying it in any other context - it sounds a bit old fashioned If anything.

I say ta. I like it. And I am usually a snob.

Mintyy
Erm, okay, I wasn't aware I was being discriminatory. I simply said it gets on my nerves.

I hate ta.

When DS was little I had to make sure he didn't take notice of theDGP, nursery staff etc who wanted him to say taaaa.

I am northern and I guess it is popular.

I use Ta all the time but DD says thank you - it's not a child's word round here (I'm northern - Lancs living in Yorkshire) but a form of Thanks. From the Danish 'Tak', we've just got lazy over the centuries and dropped the K.

Ta, Vikings.

I also work in banking and we use it all the time.

I like a short adult "Ta!"

I don't like a long drawly "TAaaaAA" as promoted by some caregivers.

Perhaps LadyonARooftop has it with the Danish link: Think Borgen!

You do realise OP that it's short for THANKS A-LOT (I come from a long line of cockneys :) ) actually more polite than thanks.

really? "a-lot" isn't a word though. where is that idea from?

Instead of saying "thanks alot" we say T.A. Instead (ta)

"alot" isn't a word though

people have been saying "ta" for centuries - is that the original etymology from the ?18th century?

"A-lot" isn't a word it's a saying