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.

(ours/yours) I mean. I am from Chester so not quite Scouse enough for "youse".

I am in Cheshire longestlurkerever I would never say Yous, but I do say Come to ours or I will come to yours.
My DP is Scottish and he says 'The car needs washed' He wouldn't say it needs washing or to be washed.

*mrsstarlord, you're spot on. I'm from the Wigan area, and on FB frequently see old school friends omitting the "to" in their posts.

Many people in the north east say yous eg 'Are yous lot coming down to the pub tonight?'

Ewes ð???

In North Cumbria...the real North West we say a short yuhs not 'ewes' ha

"Ah yuhs coming out later?"

I'm 100% guilty of this one!

We use to here, but miss out 'the.'

"I'm off t'er shops."

I'm from Yorkshire and to is not a word I ever hear missed. 'The' is though. "Am off to shop" .

Also t's in words which drives me MAD. I'm forever correcting my DC- "It's twenTy not twenny!" Feel increasingly like my old teachers...

I just assume the person speaking is thick/lower class so I avoid them and don't let my child play with theirs.

Mousefinkle here its 'tut' which seems to be a mix of the and to or 'downt' as in 'get downt field'

Theanswerisyes i tend to avoid the plummy sounding people from Surrey (or thereabouts, geography not my strong point'

Some of the language on this thread is shocking.

Not that far off, Debs. We speak properly here in West London.