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.

[OnlyLovers]

I love 'tret'.

MrsDeVere, in the part of the East Midlands I grew up in you say 'frit'. Love it.

[TruJay]

Definitely not Yorkshire, if you'd said people who miss out the word 'the' then yeh that's Yorkshire but not to.

We make up our own word of 'tut' which is to and the in one "I'm going tut shop"

[Gottagetmoving]

Lots of speech annoys me but I have to admit I say 'I'm goin' shops' or I'm goin' Town. Sometimes it's 'I am goint'shops'

I know what the correct thing to say is, I just abbreviate it like everyone did when I was growing up because it was the way people in my area spoke rather than not knowing the correct way to speak.

[Gottagetmoving]

I also hear people say 'I'm going THE Asda. I do cringe at that.

[mileend2bermondsey]

I from the North West and often miss out to and the. For example instead of:
'I'm going to the shop, do you want anything?'
I will say:
'Am going shop, ja (like a very quick 'dya)' want owt?'
ExDP despised it

In my home town it's popular to say 'for' instead of 'to'. E.g. 'what dya want for do today'. I hate that. Lots also use, IMO annoying, pronunciation like 'look' pronounced 'luke' rather than 'luck'. Same with book, cook etc. Really does my head in. The same sort will also pronounce four as 'fuh-wer'. Don't know where it comes from as it isn't across the area, certain people just choose to speak that way.

It also grates me when peple say worse when they mean worst like 'today is the worse day ever'. And 'pacifically' instead of 'specifically'.

[NKfell]

How about a new country called The UCE (United Counties of England) consisting of Cumbria, Northumberland and County Durham!

I always think 'it's got to rain tomorrow' is a weird one- I would say 'it's going to rain tomorrow'.

[soapboxqueen]

What about Tyneside, Sunderland, Gateshead and Newcastle? Should we be a principality within UCE? We shall be a tax haven and live as Queens!

[Gottagetmoving]

I hate when people pronounce tongue as Tung. Someone told me that was correct but I am not so sure,..I hate it anyway, right or wrong.

[soapboxqueen]

It hurts my brain when people pronounce tongue as tong.

[1Morewineplease]

I live in the South east and hear it all the time....it's just laziness I think.
Another one that gets me is " itching an itch"
Oh and don't get me started on " I was like..." !!!!!

[NKfell]

I'm sorry soapboxqueen I was being old fashioned with Counties- they're all included and Holy Island is our (somewhat ironic) tax haven...I mean, it is offshore sometimes so seems logical.

Gottagetmoving I nearly said that that 'tong' is so annoying! But then I fear we may turn into accent bashing! I accept it from my Mancunian friend.

[itsveryyou]

Recently seen on ketchup bottle in USA 'How Do You Happy?' Just SO unnecessary.

Also, example, 'My car needs washed.' ARGHHHHHHHHHH. I've informed the DCs that if they start to talk like this, they will get a wall of silence. Same goes for 'txt spk' when they come to get phones.

[Notso]

Loads of people where I live add " and all that" to the end of a sentence.
It baffles me. DS1's friend calls for him, "can DS1 come down the park and all that?"

Also them is used instead of is that, are they or are those "what's them?"

[NobodyLivesHere]

It's very common in Wales to add in random 'to's also 'where to are you going?' 'Where to have you been?'. Personally it drives nuts. But it is what it is.

[Gottagetmoving]

NKFell

I am from Manchester originally and I say Tong not tung. My daughter says Tung,..and I think she does it to drive me mad.

[WhatALoadOfOldBollocks]

"I'm done" rather than "I've finished"

In the context of being annoyed: "I'm pissed" instead of "I'm pissed off". I thought in Britain "pissed" meant drunk on alcohol

[itsveryyou]

'I'm good' - WHAT?!?! You're GOOD?! That is no response to someone asking you if you'd like something else. (must stop getting so irate but it bugs the heck out of me!)

Or worse...when I say 'thank you' in a restaurant/shop/someone holds a door, I get by way of a response: 'MmHmm'.

[BikketBikketBikket]

I'd never heard anyone say what's in the OP until my DGC was born, and my London-born DIL started to ask, 'Do you want go toilet?'. I thought it sounded awful and felt so proud that we spoke proper-like - in the Black Country...!

[YoureAllABunchOfBastards]

My family use 'through' instead of to in some contexts - so we will go through my nana's, or go through Durham. Drives DH mad.

[RebeccaCloud9]

(Another Essex thing but also I think a Scouse thing?) - Yous when meaning you (plural). 'Are yous going town?'

[Gottagetmoving]

Lots of people I know say Yous.
We also say 'Come round to ours' instead of 'Come to our house' and 'Shall I come to yours'

[OldBloodCallsToOldBlood]

Yous is definitely very, very Scouse (I'm Scouse-ish). Although, even Scouse varies wildly. Taxi drivers can never place me because I'm 'posh' Scouse, apparently. I would never say 'Yous'.

I have been known to say 'the Asda'. Never in the context of 'We need to go to Asda', only if I'm almost out of the door and get asked where I'm going ('I'm going the Asda').

My favourite colloquialism is from Wigan. 'I have to get the bus' magically becomes 'Affer get t'buzz' or 'Af't get buzz'. It's brilliant.

[Momagain1]

My DH is American. He doesn't do what you describe, OP, but he does miss out "to be" - so, instead of, the dishes need to be washed up, he says the dishes need washed.

As an American, 'the dishes need to be washed' or 'the dishes need washing' both sound normal, but 'the dishes need washed' sounds bizarre to me! I think that must be one of those odd things families sometimes say.

On the other hand, the addition of 'up' to 'washing' specifically when referring to the washing of dishes is much the same as his using of the wrong verb. You guys are even on verbal weirdness.

[longestlurkerever]

gottaget - I say that too. Is it only a North-West thing?