I’ve just heard

[TheSheepofWallSt]

CHESTER DRAWERS in the wild!

From a person I did not expect to hear it from...

WIBU to have thought that it was a myth?!

I am hearing more and more adults and kids alike not pronouncing 'th' when speaking: somefing, nuffing (nothing), wiv (with), ovver (other), birfday, Firsday (Thursday), etc.
Why aren't the kid's teachers not correcting the kids?

Why aren't the kid's teachers not correcting the kids?

Do you mean why are the teachers not correcting them?

I've just seen an "I could care less" on another thread, too. What's with mumsnetters' inability to use negatives correctly?

Interestingly, that other thread includes one I haven't seen before: "term of phrase" instead of turn of phrase.

I used to go to a knitting group in a primary school after hours.
The deputy head popped in, and said “I’m still waiting for one of them scarves”.

I was speechless. A teacher!

Maybe if the person usually has a good standard of English, it was meant to be ironic?

I do actually teach a child called Nevaeh!
Craziness!

Can someone please explain this one to me - does it have an amusing pronunciation or something?

It’s Heaven backwards.

www.gumtree.com/all/uk/chester+draws

'Self defecating' (Bit tongue hard, studied shoes, walls, ceiling etc, until the tears in my eyes gave the game away and I had to make a very swift exit! )

A young lady who missed her soldier boyfriend, but took great comfort in the lingering smell of his colon on her pillow......... :-D

Loose instead of lose

Except instead of accept

Estate agents describing properties as 'characteristic'

Why aren't the kid's teachers not correcting the kids?

I correct the children I teach all the time. It’s fighting an uphill battle when their own parents don’t use the correct grammar though.

What about parents who write kid’s when they mean kids’? Is that still the fault of the teachers?

@whostoletheeyeoutyourteddybear. Nope, definitely Sangwich. DW, BIL, late MIL all said it, all from the same part of Lanarkshire. Piece is a thing as well, as in “Jeely Piece” but that’s just quaint. Unlike Glaswegians who seem to mangle the English language on general principle. Fucking “Hong your jayket” my arse.

My favourite is when people say smoking sensation, instead of cessation. It is widely popular in healthcare professions.

My DD's grammar school sent a letter home yesterday about attendance. In it and I quote 'attendance is of the UPMOST importance'. It was sent from an English teacher! Seriously if a teacher can not differentiate between upmost and utmost what hope do the kids at that school have?

Complain to the school, @angieloumc .
I would of. You can't except that pour standard.

Bear with me. Grrrrrrr

But that's correct

'Bare' with me would be an invitation to remove your clothes

"Wallah!"
instead of Voila!

Not quite the same but, in the days when free weekly papers were delivered, there was a company called Sofa King.

There adverts went along the lines of
At Sofa king we are Sofa King cheap. 🤣

I am hearing more and more adults and kids alike not pronouncing 'th' when speaking: somefing, nuffing (nothing), wiv (with), ovver (other), birfday, Firsday (Thursday), etc.
Around here, the 'ing words also end in k, as in somefink, nuffink

I've just seen an "I could care less" on another thread, too. What's with mumsnetters' inability to use negatives correctly?

That one has been around for ever.

Already this morning I’ve heard:

‘It’s the vein (vane?) of my life‘ I wanted to be rude and ask was she talking about the wind direction or blood vessels.
Hisdirectory (hysterectomy)
Crips (crisps). It’s not hard is it?
And it’s only 10am.

And what’s with this ‘bare with me’? I see it so frequently that I have to question myself!
‘Off of’ really irks me.

DP says Valentimes. Times. I corrected him with a dictionary to the head last night. We shall see if it worked but I don't hold out much hope. Now I've heard it I'm looking for it even more, if you know what I mean.

A neighbour was planning to light a bomb fire, sent me a text to inform me. He looked puzzled when I said I wasn't sure an explosion was the best way to light it.

MikeUniformMike I might do that haha!

@BurtonHouse Presumably though MIL has a “pair of tits” as opposed to “a tit”? I can see the logic in her thinking.

I cannot forgive the BBC (of all institutions) allowing it's newsreaders to pronounce the word "championships" as "championCHIPS".

No.No.No.

I've noticed at work more and more people emailing requests and saying "please may you [send me this info by lunchtime]."

Makes me rage.