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?

Quite.

Is this a regional thing?

In the south west people seem to say 'led down' instead of lying down

And "reaching" for retching

Cross post

Another one that bugs me is "Recommend me a xxxx". I can recommend you to someone/for something or I can recommend something to you.

I hate the use of “quote” instead of “quotation “
To me ‘quote’ is a verb and ‘quotation’ is a noun.

I'm a teacher. On Unifrog (a UCAS based platform, where kids research courses and write their personal statements, and teachers enter references) we have to give the students "predicts". Not predicted grades, or even predictions, just "predicts" <Shudder>

The use of sat instead of sitting.

See also 'needs fed' 😶

It's a bit like "value-added". (Not sure whether this is still in use.) Value-added what?

Also, in retail not education, "Shop the summer edit!" It's an edition, FFS!

I don't get it, what should we be saying 🫣

I only have seen people use "sat" here on Mumsnet.

I was sitting.

And ground/floor. Often used incorrectly.

I think "we were sat" and "we were stood" (not sure about laid) are specifically UK usage; I've never heard them anywhere else but I have heard them IRL in the UK. I also think that in North American English (for example), you wouldn't be "sat down" by the police, you'd be "seated" like in a restaurant.

(I also think there's a fundamental difference between "can I get?" (is it available) and "may I have?" (please bring me...). If you can't get it then there's no point in asking if you may have it. Some people do use can I get when they mean may I have, though.)

Is this in the written word, or spoken, @LaPerduta because as Irish person I'm hearing in my head the many different dialects (of UK speakers of English)

We're still sitting in the US as well.

The construction I see on MN from time to time that sounds odd to my American ears is 'he was sat in his phone.'

It's regionally specific. I was born in London, moved to the NW and then moved to the SE all by the age of 13. I picked up 'I was sat' on my travels but I still use sitting too.

Does it really matter? Wouldn't life be boring if we were all the same?

@schnubbins this drives me insane, along with "I done". It's everywhere!

"Myself and Bob were sat outside when we seen a dog passing. The dog stopped and done a poo then he led down". 😂😂 Nooooooo!

I use it. I was quite confused at your post wondering if you were talking about some other use for the word I’d missed.

A colleague once said “it couldn’t have went any wronger” and I felt like murdering her, I’m sure a jury wouldn’t have convicted me.

As a speaker of hiberno english, I'm quite partial to the use of "myself" but only when it follows hiberno english grammar rules.

Please can you give an example @OchonAgusOchonOh?

I'm Scottish and can't think of any.

Yep, it's very common parlance in Scotland. I always imagined it being spelled "youse" but it was definitely not acceptable in written English at school so who knows if there is an official spelling?

It is, of course, the direct equivalent of "vous" in French or "vosotros" in Spanish.

@CourtneeLuv
The "needs + past tense" construction is absolutely standard in Scotland.

"That shirt needs washed"
"The grass needs cut"
"The problem needs sorted out"

It's just elision of the words "to be" in the middle, in that it should be

"That shirt needs TO BE washed"
"The grass needs TO BE cut"

I can't tell you how unnatural the English English "ing" construction sounds to me

"The clothes need washing"
"the baby needs feeding"

At least ours just missed a bit out of the grammatically correct phrase- yours has a completely random present participle in it!

Took the words right out of my mouth.

Shop the summer edit!" It's an edition, FFS!

Yes, you need to move with the times, OP. You are a dinosaur.

Phenomenon/Phenomena. Phenomenon is the singular, phenomena is the plural. It’s quite simple. But I hear phenomena used as a singular all the time - “this phenomena” - and god dammit, I was watching an episode of Star Trek Strange New Worlds last night and Mr Spock, of all people, said “phenomenons”.

See also criterion/criteria.