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.

One of the thickest people I know speaks like the fucking queen.

If hearing "hospickle" doesn't warm the cottles of your heart, you are dead inside.

I wouldn't say toilet. I'd say going loo, I'm NW area if that makes any difference.
If somebody said something about the way I talked I'd ask them what it had to do with them and suggest they got a life
Please don't say anything. You will either offend and upset or get a similar response as to mine.

It's not a south west thing........well, not in my part of the south west anyway!

One of the thickest people I know speaks like the fucking queen.

Is the actual queen?

I've often wondered...

Ha love this.

Mn is all inclusive of other cultures/immigration/disability and sexuality but my god you speak using regional phrases and you are the scum of society

I actually think it might be a bit of an inverted snobbery thing when educated people insist on speaking as if they don't know any better.

Why do you think your variant is 'better'?

If you've had some education, you will know English dialects vary, and grammar varies.

You will also be aware that some people are (actual) snobs and, sadly, code-switching is a very useful skill to cope with them.

But I do not see how it can be inverted snobbery to speak the way that comes naturally to you.

Haven't RTWT. I'm in NW London, and recently, my dd's friend's mum rang to ask if DD was intending to go to Youth Club that evening. What she actually said was " DD going youfy?"
I wanted to rip my ears off.
Self-confessed grammar/syntax/ manners snob I am.

Oh yes, class snobbery is the last acceptable bigotry.

In fairness to the OP, I don't think it applies to her.

" If hearing "hospickle" doesn't warm the cottles of your heart, you are dead insid2...

*cockles

I live in the East Midlands (although I'm not from here) and people say this ALL the time. It drives me mad!!!
"Going toilet"
"Goiñg school"
"Going work"
AAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHH!
I hate it! And now my DD has started saying it, as she's picked it up from the carers ar nursery. I am constantly correcting her. It's just poor English and it's wrong.

An ex friend of mine used to say " I'm going to the tour lit " it's not something anyone else says here so not a regional thing but was so bloody annoying. I don't miss her at all

His do you feel about going large?

I love hospickle I work in one and have to say I have never come across a surgeon who would say "going theatre"

I do agree with OP that my nerves would be in shreds if I had to listen to someone speaking in half sentences all day. Sadly I am not in charge of recruitment but if I were I wouldn't want to work with someone who would grate on me like that, sorry.

Can somebody tell me why they call popadoms pompadoms in Wales? I thought I was imagining it last time we were in Cardiff, but I'm told that it's used routinely?

*how do you feel

What does going large mean in this context?
I wouldn't imagine anyone says I'm going to the large as it's not a place.

"Going toilet" make me want to vomit.

Pompadoms! 😆😆😆

Fabulous

Going toilet is awful. On the toilet is really grim.

"Going toilet" make me want to vomit.

Maybe you should clean your lav?

Nope, can;t get worked up.

Both my OH and DD suffer from aphasia, a speech and language processing disorder.
My OH also has mild autism and dyslexia. He strugles ( He also has an IQ of 155 and earns 50K a year)

" Maybe you should clean your lav? "

I'm from London and just realised that I say 'going shop' etc. I've got a degree in English literature so it isn't ignorance, must be a dialect thing.