Colleague's speech patterns annoying me

[cardboardPeony]

I think I probably ABU but I have a colleague who uses phrases like "X is going toilet". This really grates on me but I don't know how to say that it does or if I'm just being unreasonable and it's a regional thing.

Also we work with children and therefore should be using the language we want them to use, especially as lots of them are just learning English, but I think I am going to sound like a major pedant bringing it up.

TBH op if you do bring it up wmyoubeill sound a bit of a knob. You can't go around correcting other adults speech with out expecting to be told to feck off

they should say 'miss i need the bog'...
Peony I am joking really

I'm in the Midlands and have never heard this.

I know someone who would say that. They're from Nottingham. I just assumed it was a regional thing? I don't say twenty pounds tho, I would say 20 pound. What annoys me is when people say "keckle" instead of kettle. But to be honest since Ashley Peacock left Corrie I don't hear that anymore!

Oh god. Yuck. There isn't really any way of saying anything though.

Thing like this annoy me too.

Innit is one that drives me crazy.

Similarly, A woman I work with insists on calling black people 'coloured'. I've told her it's wrong but she still does it!

I doubt there's any point bringing it up tbh, probably won't change anything!

Common all over particularly with the young. Friends in SW miss out 'to the'. Lots here in NE.
My ex MIL used to 'go morrisons' 'go Tesco' but 'go The Asdas'. Ducking made my teeth itch.

I've heard people say 'going Bluewater' or similar. It's the same people that say 'it cost 20 pound' - I don't think it's regional, I think it just depends have you've been raised.

Fucking.

YANBU you be annoyed by it. It is poor and lazy English. Just make a point of modelling the correct way of saying it, whenever the children say it the same way as your colleague, i.e., "Yes Maisy, you may go to the toilet".

How about dropping ts is that a regional thing? Like wa'er.

Why 'yuck'?

It's not like they are.saying, '.....is going for a slash'

Glaswegian here.

No chance we'd say that up here.

"Going nandos, innit"

That's how I imagine it being used

Also, use of the word toilet is a no no for me after living with an American years ago. She was aghast at how literal it was. Always use bathroom these days

User(some random numbers) surely that is the definition of regional, something specific local to where you are / have been raised

Mebee i'm not sure those situations are comparable to be honest.

Sorry I meant how you have been raised, missed out crucial word!

So I'm uneducated AND lazy!

I love a good glo''al stop, cardboardPeony. She gone po''y, innit?

My DD seems to have lost the ability to use the word 'to' , it drives me mad . I'm forever correcting her , so she does it even more !

Paxillin it took me a good minute to decipher than sentence!

I am a southerner and have never heard this (thank the Lord).

So not 'regional' then. Just a way of speaking the length and breadth of the country. Using 'to' or 'to the' would sound better to my ears I think, though I've never heard it said out loud or if I have I've not noticed it. I'm in Surrey and I'm sure some people miss out the connectives just like people everywhere seem to.

Condensedmilk where do you live?

Yes it's regional. I speak like this sometimes. I'm from London.

I'm surprised people are unfamiliar with this tbh.

"I'm going shops later" sounds totally normal to me! Although tbh it's not a turn of phrase I'd use in professional-mode.

I think YABU and intolerant to correct your colleague though. No it's not the queen's English but neither is any regional accent.

Midlander here, never heard anyone say it.