Oooh you pedants are going to love this!

[Smitff]

www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/05/the-35-words-youre-probably-getting-wrong

Pictures are hung and murderers used to be hanged.

But if you meet a Hartlepudlian and ask who hung the monkey?" the answer will be that recent research has conclusively proved that the monkey was^ a French spy, so there!

Yes, the 'versing' thing, ScotinExile. It's bizarre! A back formation from versus. I'm
in Australia too, and it seems to be mainly youngsters saying it.

So... at the beginning of every single sentence.. 'Can I get' instead of 'Could I have'. Using the word bathroom instead of toilet. Calling overweight 'obese'. Obese is chronically overweight, not just overweight.
General use of American words like 'closet' instead of wardrobe.

Ect for etc.
Often seen on MN:
"Please settle an argument between DH and I "
Many similar examples of this.

Never heard 'jamp' but regularly hear 'shew' (instead of showed).

'Jamp'? You have got to be in Glasgow! I used to hear that all the time from pupils ( not staff, thankfully) when I taught in a particular area. Born & bred in Glasgow, I had never heard it until I started teaching there.

I grew up hearing "may as well be hung for a wolf as a sheep."

I have monkey hangers in my family. I shall mention it in passing and see which word they use!

It was a useful article op thanks!

Oh - the 'myself' 'yourself' gets my goat. If you go to the pharmacy to pick something up, and the pharmacist says "Is this for yourself?" (GAAHH)

And if you go to the Vet, for instance, and the Receptionist aks "What was your name?" and "What was your address?" Well - if I told you what it WAS, that would be no help at all as you wouldn't have what it WAS listed in your records - surely you need to know what IT IS NOW

And on social media, people post pictures with the caption "Here is a pic of so-and-so and I" When they mean 'me'! Hardly anyone these days seems to know how to correctly use 'me' and 'I'

I only realised recently that "outwith" is just a scottish thing. It is such a useful word. What does everyone else use instead?

Don't shoot me. I was reading the Daily Mail article on Lady Lucan and one of the comments by dianaxx2 said "maybe the kids prefer the titles their father brang?"

Brang? I cringed when I read it.

dementedma I use 'outwith' sometimes nowadays and I'm not Scottish. (Although, I did hear it from a Scottish person about 25 yrs ago, looked it up and found it very useful. It is in the OED)!

I'm not exactly sure what outwith means - is it just the same as "outside."

Outwith saves you having to say "outside of"!

I'd just say outside - do you need an of?

You can use it instead of 'not within the remits of' (I think - still learning)!

Trying to think of an example where I've used it where it was very effective, but can't think of one as am cooking dinner and feeding pets at the moment. I'll pop back (possibly)

Outwith the scope of the project
Outwith is remit
Outwith our resources etc

Hmmm But I would just say

Outside the scope of the project

(Sorry don't understand the second one)

Beyond our resources

His remit, sorry

A regional quirk from somewhere near me is tret instead of treated.

Don't know where your somewhere is, but in the south-east I've heard that used by traveller families. The women are often "tret bad" by their husbands.

I've always regarded it as a dialect thing, rather than an error.

I have found my people.

Get's pillo and lay's down to encomfortable myself.

Ah right, so you just mean "outside his remit."

Disappointing, Amazon.

Can anyone spot it?

It's ---> its!