To get annoyed at 'How's you?'

[mummytwoshoes]

'How's you?' 'How IS you?' It's just not right!! I want to tell whoever says it exactly that.
DH has started to say it too, and I cannot stop myself from correcting him, which of course he thinks I'm totally irrational for. Does it annoy anyone else?

[Shenanagins]

Yup, someone in work does this and I hate it!

[StealthPolarBear]

Yanbu

[ChasingHighs]

I say it all the time and I'm not gonna stop because some random on the internet doesn't like it.

[Walnutwhipaddict]

I quite like it, just because a really good friend of mine says it :) Not sure how I'd feel about it from someone I didnt really like though! 😂

[ImperialBlether]

I hate it, too!

[TerfwithaNerf]

I hate it.

When I was on OLD I used to instantly block and delete anyone who used it as an opener.

Them: Heya, how's u (optional 'gorgeous')?

Me: Nope.

[ChasingHighs]

It's friendly. I understand MN doesn't do friendly and informal though.

[OnlyRose]

YANBU. I hate it too!

[JeReviens]

YANBU OP - not at all. It's kind of creepy and cheesy and lazy and just wrong!

[sunnycloudyrainy]

Hate it. But what I REALLY hate, makes me want to rip my ears off.... 'me thinks'

[MaryWortleyMontagu]

I've never heard this before! To my hearing it's not friendly, it's just wrong! You don't say "how is you?", you say "how are you?" so why on earth would you say "how's you"??? It's makes no sense! It's as bad as "you was"!

[HarrietSchulenberg]

I've used it verbally but I couldn't bring myself to write, text or email it. Bit like "Hiya" (flinch).

[ChasingHighs]

Pedants bore me to tears. I'll leave you all to your nit picking thread.

[Notknownatthisaddress]

People posting on threads they aren't interested in PURELY to bitch about it and say how they are not interested in it is what fucks me off!!!

[Notknownatthisaddress]

And yes 'how's you?' is annoying. Rarely hear anyone say it though.

[Scrupilydupily]

I love these threads, they remind me how to speak to make people I don't care about irrationally angry. Love the idea people overhearing me talk getting in a strop

[UserThenLotsOfNumbers]

I is fine, but more importantly, how are you?

[Babypassport]

Sunny, it's not 'me thinks', it's methinks and is perfectly accurate:

www.dictionary.com/browse/methinks%20?s=t

Not a fan of 'how's you?' though.

[iklboo]

Ah but I'm a sucker for an Irish 'How's yourself?' (years of working in an Irish pub)

[MaisyPops]

It doesn't annoy me if it's in private messages/text, but it drives me mad when people are speaking.

[llangennith]

I hate bad grammar and there's no excuse or reason for it. Thick people think it doesn't matter.

[Aroundtheworldandback]

My pet hate

[CaoNiMartacus]

"How's you" is so oafish. I always think the speaker must be some sort of yokel.

[haveacupoftea]

Can't stand it. The people who use it seem to be the same people who say 'simples' and 'end of'. It's not 2003 anymore, and yet people still use these phrases.

[TheNaze73]

YANBU. It's a bit shit