Misuse of the word 'on'...

[lovelyjubilly]

Aibu to detest the way that the word 'on' is suddenly misused in so many contexts?

Just two examples:

"I do it on a morning."
NO! I thinking you mean in the morning'.

"What do you think on my shirt?"
NO! What do I think about your shirt?

Rant over.

Aibu?

Facebook friend of mine thinks "while" is "why".................

AAAARGH

On a morning is normal in Yorkshire. As is "while" for "until" ( 9 while 5) and "us" for "my" (I give him us stapler).
Get over it.

'Waiting on' Noooo it is waiting for. (Unless you're a waiter/waitress)

'On a morning' is just what you say, at least in West Yorkshire. It is like disapproving of Geordies saying 'gannin'! It is most definitely not a new thing as I remember my late Grandma using it.

I hate "what do you think to this skirt?"

It doesn't mean anything!

The English language evolves all the time.

Yes but the examples in the OP are not 'evolution' they are incorrect use of the language.

Surely by that logic cookie all regional dialect is ‘incorrect’?

One of the things that makes the UK interesting is it’s regional diversity.
‘On a mirning’ Is no more ‘incorrect than ‘apples and pears’ for stairs or whatever - it’s a local usage of language that it clearly understood in that region.

It irritates me when people say 'on the weekend'. I always thought it was 'at the weekend'. I think I must be a grammar pedant though, as I don't know anyone else that gets annoyed by this...

Basically this thread is just folk that live in the Home Counties sneering at Northern dialect as ‘wrong’

GET !!
''Can I get..............''

No you cant GET, you can Have ('' Please can I have.....'')

"On the weekend"

No AT the weekend.

Jess

I often have to correct myself on the old get/have front. It's so bloody annoying.

Yes but the examples in the OP are not 'evolution' they are incorrect use of the language But that's how evolution works, random mutations (mistakes), some of which turn out to be useful.

The station announcements saying no smoking anywhere “on the station” - this really drives me mad! Is that correct usage? I assumed so if official announcements were using it but sounds dreadful to me!

I love these local turns of phrase 😊

I do notice that people on here use "on" in a way I don't when talking about their children. For example "When did you wean? On DD I did it at 14 weeks but on DS, I waited until 20". Is that a Yorkshire thing too?

"To which" is commonly used incorrectly now. See also "sat" and "stood". Occasionally, it's dialect but often, it's just wrong. It happens in print/on the radio with increasing frequency.

I used to say “of” instead of “on” and “you’s” instead of “you” and mix up tenses. So the phrase “I saw you(plural) last night in my car” became “I see you’s of the night in me car”

Defo a dialect thing... took me a long time to sort out when I moved to oxford!!!

Jess surely "please may I have.."?

NO! I thinking you mean in the morning'.

It’s probably best to check your own use of language when starting a thread ranting about incorrect use

The station announcements saying no smoking anywhere “on the station” - this really drives me mad! Is that correct usage?
Yes, that's correct usage. As long as its a railway station and not a train station!

Ok, up north here - help me out:

on a morning - doing something on any day, in the morning.

in the morning - doing something the next morning.

What should I be saying when I want to do something on a non-specific morning?

On a morning - non-specific morning
On the morning - specific morning/tomorrow as in “I’ll see thee on t’ morning”

"Basically this thread is just folk that live in the Home Counties sneering at Northern dialect as ‘wrong’"

Yep. (that means 'yes', for the benefit of those of you who struggle with non-standard English)

I've noticed an increasing number of people who say "On accident"".

Oh boy, that one makes my eyes water.

"On the weekend" is terrible!

I have an American friend who says "on accident" instead of "by accident" and it makes me want to throttle her