To ask if the word "sitting" has fallen out of use completely?

[LaPerduta]

See also "lying" and "standing".

I realise there are dialects and that this is Mumsnet, not an academic assignment, but I hardly ever see "sitting" being used when - dare I say it - it should be.

Do I need to move with the times?

What do people use instead of sitting??

I use it often. I’m just sitting at my desk. I’ve spent the whole day sitting on my butt watching Netflix…..

I use those words daily unless they mean something different these days.

Yes they don't use it correctly here either. I'm sat instead of I'm sitting.

I think so! Depressing isn't it?

I'm afraid it is out of use with the younger generation if my DC are anything to go by. I am a bit of a pedant, which they will testify to, but my pleas to use sitting instead of sat fall on deaf ears.😪

@Perple - it's "I was sat" or "so I'm sat at my desk" - even typing this has made me twitch 😁

Sitting, lying and standing are commonly used everyday words.

Oh my god I was not aware that this was happening.

i am sitting her clutching my pearls.

totally unacceptable

I don't mind it. What I mind is "lay/laying" for "lie/lying". Makes me picture them with an egg coming out. Which is frequently a mental image I don't want.

It’s the same as “invitation”

invite has taken over completely

I was stood there. Even worser 😂

Is it as bad as gifting?! 'to give' ' I have been given '. Where does 'i've been gifted' come from?! I'm all for language evolving but this one just makes me angry for some reason!

I was sat - hate it.

That one makes sense to me as a communication of nuance. "I was gifted a book" means I was given it as a gift, "I was given a book" is broader.

Oh I see - you mean 'I'm sat'? I was worried sitting had gone the way of pegging.

I'm similarly sad about you becoming yous and people writing you're as your.

Here there's an increase in "I was led down" very much led rather than laid.

People often say 'I'm just sat at my desk' instead

If "I was led down" was meant, it would possibly be spelt "lead" (I've seen that error even in edited publications).

Oh and don't start me on 'me and Fred'. Really good grades in English Language and still say that. It drives me nuts.

@ClumpingBambooIsALie you've half triggered a memory for me! Me singing a Christmas carol as a kid and my DM suddenly saying LAY! Mary LAY Jesus in the manger. Not laid. Mary wasn't a bloomin' chicken !! 😲

I didn't quite get it then. I do now obvs.
I'm trying to remember what the carol was!

Bristolians tend to say ‘led down’ etc. A bit of dialect. See also, ‘where ee be led down to?’

It drives me up the wall when people say/write he's instead of his. Whyyyyyyyyyy???

OP why not have the courage of your convictions and just say that you hate people using "sat" instead of "sitting" instead of all this mealy mouthed nonsense?

It appears to have. Not for me though 🤓

I'd watch that Nativity TBF.

What really chaps my a$$ is "women" instead of the singular "woman". As in "She is a kind women". Ugh!