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

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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?!!!

We are from Essex...and we say.....I'm goin (notice goin not going) to Lakeside. OK?

My (lovely) nanny used to speak like this. She used to talk about 'going tennis'. It was really hard not to correct her in front of the boys - but I was determined that my boys wouldn't speak like this!

(Did have to spend some time with ds2 getting him to say 'gurls' instead of 'gels' - sarf London accent was rubbing off too well on him!

Well actually she said "ahhm goin' Lakeside"

She probably didn't even use a capital L when she said it either!

BIWI - the same girl was once telling me about something on telly she'd watched involving clans. She was saying it "claaaans". It took me quite a while to work out she was actually referring to "clowns"

My XP used to say 'go-ink' instead of going. He added a k to the end of all words that ended in ING. Thankfully I no longer have to hear this - it was like the Chinese Water Torture waiting for the next one.

My DH says, "Are you coming with?" or "Are you taking it with?" I can't bear it. And my DS is picking it up. We're both from the same town by coincidence and he's from the better side of the tracks but he still speaks incorrectly. Call me pedantic but it bugs me.

My dear ol' ma does this and it's infuriating. Most frequently it's 'put kettle on'.

I hate it when people don't use normal language when talking to babies - how are they meant to learn to speak when the input is "Baby go wee-wee"....

hell lets just force all children to learn Queens English and be done with all the regional accents that make the UK (and the same applies in the rest of the world with accents/dialects etc) a more interesting place to live.

Now I goin down t make bottles.

Gawd 'elp us if they all talk like t'Queen.....

I hate "laters" instead of see you later. It's lazy.

DD is only 9 mo so not in imminent danger of corruption, but I watched in horror the other day as nursery staff were teaching little ones to say "Ta" instead of "thank you"

oooo I used to hear "laters" all the time in Zim - think it was more commonly used by the Goffal community but everyone said it LOL.

I taught my children to say "Ta" first.....they had no problem with switching to "Thankyou" once they were able

Nothing to do with talking the Queen's English. I think people just have personal preferences about how our wonderfully diverse language is spoken. Your choice may be different to mine. English language allows that. It's amazing really.