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

[fiveacres]

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.

[soapboxqueen]

Maybe you had an influx of geordie folk

[TheChandler]

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!

[fiveacres]

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

[ChwatFeechers]

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

North West gal.

[GinSoakedBitchyPony]

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.

[GinSoakedBitchyPony]

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

[NKfell]

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

North Cumbria here.

[ChwatFeechers]

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

[ChwatFeechers]

*Probably, even.

[Feminine]

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!

[KnitFastDieWarm]

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!

[LuluJakey1]

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!

[soapboxqueen]

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

[LuluJakey1]

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

[LuluJakey1]

But not Scotland.

[soapboxqueen]

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.

[TheChandler]

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!

[Hushabyelullaby]

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.

[CremeEggThief]

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.