to expect people to actually use ALL of the words in a sentence?!!!

[RGPargy]

I know loads of people do it, but it really really BUGS me!!

I really hate it when people say, for example "i'm going gym" or "i'm going Lakeside". Why on earth cant you say "to the gym" or "to Lakeside"?? Is it really that much of an effort to speak properly?!!!!!

The girls at work say it all the time! WHY?!!!

How about 'I'm goin down the Asda'

I get just as incensed (man, am I going to be a reeeeallly crabby old woman).

yesterday my husband used my phone to text his sister, I had to send a message after saying the text wasn't from me as "I don't use text speak".

Now, that's pedantic......

do you want to come with

is my personal loathe atm

Lazarou - it would be "i'm going TO Asda" :-P

Laurie -

lazrou where are you from they always that by me and it really pees me off.

I live near bath.

I mean, I live down Bath

oh ok must be a uk-wide thing. we get im going up the asda though too.

YANBU

it really bugs me too - lazy feckers!

RGP, I'm just wondering, did you think of Lakeside off the top of your head or is it that someone from Essex, in particular, would say!

Sometimes people add an l on the end so it's 'i'm goin down the asdal'

'where's that to then?' aaarrggghh I hate that! DH says it all the time, it's not TO anywhere.

Is it just me or should it be 'where is that then?'??

"Do you want to come with?"
and
"would you like to get rid"
Agree. arrrgh!!

are you insulting northerners, parge?

I live in the Black Country and there's a lot of it about...
"Oi live over the Lye" is one I heard recently. Lye is a place of its own, it doesn't need a "the"!!! Or an "over". That's extra words rather than missing ones though, but still...

that's where i live too stripeymama.

people who say 'innit' at the end of every thing is what really irritates me, innit [grr]

stripeymama i am organising a meet up soon. it was meant to be over the summer but it never happened. do you have an email address? or if you don't want to put it on here email me on [email protected]

thread here

(sorry for the hijack)

Aha thanks nappyaddict, will take a look. Don't you just love the local dialect (for want of a better word)?

Am yow?

It ay.

Ar bay gooin...

Sod ballet, dd will be getting elocution lessons for christmas.

YAWN.... oops, I mean YABU.

my mum made me have elocution lessons. i hated them. i don't think i've ended up with too bad an accent. i think as long as your parents don't have one you don't tend to pick it up.

I wouldnt really send her to elocution! Any more than I would ballet, being a bit slack about extra-curricular stuff.
I don't have a local accent (I think) as I spent years living away so dd prob won't pick it up. She did have a nice yorkshire accent when we first moved here, "Are we going to t'shop" etc.

lol. how old is she?

Maureen - i overheard someone at work mention Lakeside. yes, she is from Essex lol.

Did she say going or goin'?