to not like it when people say hiya

[User472262]

I just don’t get the purpose of it’s much more formal and polite to say hello or even hi.

I’m welsh and say it too. Not so much here in Surrey where I’ve lived for 20yrs but always to my friends in Wales

Hiya in North East Scotland too.

Or the usual Aberdeen greeting, Aye, Aye, fit like?

' right?
The ' is represented by an almost imperceptible flick back of the head.

I'm still not getting why you think a doctor's is a 'formal setting'.

It's much better than hey, which is hideous

YES!!!!

I like hiya. I'm a proper posh Londoner and I use it all the time...

I'm vaguely aware that there is a minority of people who perhaps don't like hiya. They're the ones who reply to my hiya with hi or hello. I'm not bothered

"A doctor using it though - shocking. He was probably drunk"

??????

I say hiya mostly. Obviously not in a formal situation, but it's my default greeting.

No-one has ever objected so from my experience YABU

Never considered it is regional but I’m from the south west and we generally do a few Welshisms like lush. I definitely say hiya as do most of my friends. You’d hate us OP. On top of an email to parents though? Nope.

What tosh. Firstly, "hi" isn't remotely formal. Secondly, "hiya" is not inherently impolite, it's just informal (like "hi" is, but maybe one little step more informal).

Yet more people not understanding REGIONAL DIALECT!!!

Jeez it's getting ridiculous

Appledeapp really ? I'm going to use it more often if it annoys people over such a ridiculous thing.

OP are you my mother? Her bug bears are hiya , ok instead of alright (no idea about this one just a random decision) and it's great fun to watch her go purple with apoplectic rage if people use the word mate in her prescence .

She hasn't got many friends and most of her family avoid her...I wonder why?

It's quite ubiquitous here in Merseyside - even from doctors 😱

Yabu. It’s just an expression,
Although I did old school ‘online dating’ when it relied on phone messages. I just scrolled passed every guy that opened his introduction with hi or hi ya. If they can’t use hello for an introduction, I wasn’t that interested.

My American friends think cheerio is an amazing alternative to goodbye, and they nearly wet themselves when someone said toodlepip! It takes all sorts.

Wotcha cock.
London greeting!

My dh and his brother always greet each other with “alright,cock?” We’re Londoners but they definitely mean it as an insult

Yes my dad used to say 'alright me old cock' when greeting male friends in London.

I use all sorts, hello, hi and hiya. A greeting is better than a grunt!

Non-issue. I would love to be you to be irked by such a non problem.
Oh, hiya! by the way.

Where do you stand on HEYa, @User472262? This is what I say, and I’ve never been accused of being warm or friendly.

Thank you to the posters who have told me I am being silly to stop using hiya 😊 I have got over my shock that I could offend/annoy people by using it. I have always used it.

Where do you stand on HEYa,

Depends. Do you shake it like a Polaroid picture

Oof you’d hate it if you came into my clinical room OP.

I usually greet my patients with ‘Yorrite? I’m Nurse PawPatrol’ in my very ‘Ull accent. I think the last time I pronounced a H at the beginning of a word was around 1992.

Seriously?

Jesus, who gives something like this serious thought. I could not care less how I'm greeted.