To hate it when people miss out the word 'to'

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DS has picked it up.

'Hey, Mum, I want to go Florida!'
'you want to go TO Florida!'
'Yeah, that's what I said. I want to go Florida and -'

Argh.

I noticed this when I was teaching and it drove me crazy then - 'Can I go toilet?'

Grrrrrrr.

So am I being ridiculously anal or does anyone else loathe this? I also can't stand 'etc etc' which seems to be another thing DS is bringing home from school.

Maybe you had an influx of geordie folk

Eat 'I wanna go'a Florida'

To is replaced with an 'a' sort of sound. Not sure how to explain it.

Sounds more like Danish!

Yes, I was thinking that sounded more Lahore than Leeds, Derek

I wanna go t'Florida.
Go t'shop.
Canna go t'toilet?

North West gal.

YANBU OP. I've been thinking lately to start the same thread. It drives me mad.

I live in the north west and have done so for more than 50 years. This is a recent (10+ years) phenomemon here. I used to work in Staffordshire for a short time and had noticed it there years ago.

"I'm going work"
"I'm going my mate's"
"I'm going gym"

I know nothing about grammar or sentence structure but to my ear, those aren't complete sentences.

Cross post Chwat ! But using t' is different to leaving out 'to' completely, no?

We sort of say "Ah wanna go uh'Florida"

North Cumbria here.

Probabyly, GinSoakedBitchyPony. Always makes me laugh though how many words/letters 'North Westers' miss out, especially if they're talking fast.

*Probably, even.

As my children have had two obviously different accents/speech patterns since birth, l find this subject interesting.
It has led me to be totally non judgemental, as they are exactly the same human as before.
I think happiness is the most important thing in life. Who cares how they speak?
Correct everything doesn't make life perfect!

A bit of Brizzle translation:

'Can you direct me to your finest local patisserie?' = 'Wur's Greggs to?'

'I wish to visit a local supermarket - please direct me to the nearest Asda' = 'Wur's Asdal's to then?'

I love local dialects - just love them.

My husband is from East Lothian and says things like 'that needs cooked' or 'it needs washed'. Used to it now!

Never heard it up here in Northumberland. Of course, the north-east is becoming increasingly isolated from the rest of the country in every way. I can see us becoming part of Scotland!

Lulu us breaking off from England and becoming part of Scotland has been a hot topic of conversation in these parts since the election.

I know. I would prefer us to be a little country on our own, taking in Northumberland and anything North of the Tyne.

But not Scotland.

That's only Newcastle and North Tyneside then . I know there's stuff in the works to make us all into this super authority. We'd keep the individual ones but some stuff would be decided by the super council. I think it's Northumberland, North and South Tyneside, Gateshead, Newcastle, Sunderland and maybe Durham.

Flip, I hope not - I'm thinking of buying a house in Northumberland, having sold family home in Scotland to get away from all that crapola!

Yes! It's said often where I am, also instead of 'can you give it to me?', people say 'give it me'. This drives me mad, I sympathise with you.

It's a lazy, sloppy way of speaking.

I don't like 'out the house', 'out the window', etc. No, it's out OF the house/window/whatever.