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?

Spelling errors are cringeworthy.

But regional pronunciation is a good thing and part of our history, and the last thing we want is to lose it and all speak standard English.

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

Home Counties? I live in Scotland!

Also I am not sneering, I just don't think evolution is an excuse for using words incorrectly.

Furiosa

Cross post! Glad it's not just me.

Jessbow, YES,' get' instead of' have'. Grrr! I have noticed though that it always seems to be younger people, teens, twenties, even thirties who say this.

Why? Where did it come from? Is it an American expression?

Also how about the word 'like' which, again is confined to younger people. "So she said xxxxx and I was like xxxxx then she was like xxxxx"
Is that another import from the States?

Never heard your two examples OP but the one that's totally wrecking my head is on a period. My DDs constantly refer to themselves and other being on their period.

NO, NO, NO IT'S WRONG, WRONG, WRONG

So the phrase “I saw you(plural) last night in my car” became “I see you’s of the night in me car”

I don't believe you have ever uttered that sentence in your life.

You’re pissed off WITH them, you can’t be angry AT someone.

Of course you can!

What really gets my goat is the misuse of prepositions in cooking-speak. "I'll just put this through the oven" - WTF?

And we haven't even got started on the 'we was' brigade!!

I’ve never heard it used incorrectly like that.
But if I hear ‘yous/youse’ used again I’m going to slam my fork in my eye.
‘Are youse lot coming tomorrow’
‘Are youse going out?’

ARGGGGGGGHHHHH. It’s not a regional thing here either, its the home bloody counties.

Or using ‘going’ on its own. ‘Just going town’ ‘just going cinema’
USE TO! GOING TO THE CINEMA!

Blimey I could rant for hours

my mother corrects the way people speak too.... for fun i turn her toilet paper around on the holder and i flush it with the toilet seat lid OPEN!!!!!! :)

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

It's been a good few weeks since we had one of these threads.

"On Christmas"

And a MN favourite "Go no contact" - You mean have no further contact with them...?

I agree with loads of the above and am in a rush so haven't read every post, but does anyone else get annoyed with "Yeah No" in answer to a question? The person invariably means just "Yes", so why say 'no' immediately afterwards? I hear it a lot on house-hunting TV programmes e.g. Escape to the Country, (along with the infuriating "space" instead of room which a PP mentioned). The person will be asked something like "Is this kitchen big enough for you" and reply "Yeah no, it's just right" or "That's a nice view isn't it?" and they say "Yeah no it's absolutely stunning"
WHY?

There are a lot of Carols with "on" used in that way.

And then there's the Nursery Rhyme "here we go round the Mulberry bush, on a cold and frosty morning".

I like regional dialects and the difference in speech patterns. They are perfectly valid.

On a morning sounds like normal informal English to me.

On the weekend/on Christmas is an American English variation.

I've never heard "Tell me what you think on this". But I have heard "I'll think on it" which means think it over.

I haven’t heard the on examples but my colleague says “of a night time” and it drives me nuts

People who start sentences with 'So'.

So I was washing my hair....
So I was in the kitchen....
So I was trying to make you think we were in the middle of a conversation when we actually weren't....

Fuck off with your Americanisms!!!

OP, I am a Northerner born and bred and I have never said on the weekend, on a morning or any other such phrase. So maybe this is a Yorkshire thing.

All you butchers of the English language, look out for the correct use of the word 'so' if you can 😜

So, is supposed to get people's attention, it was a public speaking tatic, but it's crept into everyday.

Here in Liverpool, we say, "on the weekend". sometimes, I do, it depends who I'm talking to.

I think that's why it irks me more than it should. When used in every day language, especially when written down I can't interpret whether the author sounds needy and attention-grabby (So, ahem, may I have your attention please as I really need you to focus on what I'm telling you) or smug (So, my life is sooooo amaaazing dahhhhlings, I KNOW you're just DYING to hear about my life).

It's irritating as fuck.

Notthesoap I am a bit of a 'So..'-er. My excuse is it can't be American because the French often start a sentence with 'Alors...'

Hahaha the French can keep it. It's just plain wrong when used as a precursor to a sentence in the English language

Said the former my whole like in Yorkshire, never the second though.

There ^

It’s just a contraction or reappropriation of the above rule