‘We was’

[StripeyNighty]

Arghhh, is it just me noticing SO many people now saying/ typing ‘we was?!’

I’m on so many FB baby groups and I swear every person on there says ‘we was in the living room’ ‘we was scared’ etc. It absolutely drives me insane, why is is it so prevalent all of a sudden?

No idea, but it grates on me too!

It's been like that for ages. I notice but I don't think much of it, I'm sure everyone's annoying in their own way

I hate it too. Urgh.

Hate it so much! Along with a new "trend" of saying "myself" instead of just "me".

YANBU! My partner always says "I SEE that happen" etc and I hate it! It's saw!

He's actually very clever but was raised in a family with poor vocab and grammar. Old habits die hard I suppose.

Yeah that and 'I seen' wtf? It sounds so stupid.

You only have to watch the Apprentice….

Seriously awful. Makes my toes curl up. It’s as bad as worster… it’s just worst, ffs.

Pisses me right off.

There will be someone along, in a minute, who'll proudly say that its 'dialect,' but I'd love to know of an English teacher who'll teach that.

Is it not an Essex thing? it’s the one thing I notice in speech when someone comes from that area.

never hear it up north

That sounds SO wrong..!

Happy to be of service, @GlassBunion.

I can't tell - do you mean you don't believe it's dialect?

The dialect quirk that grates on me is 'ent' (as in 'you ent getting any'). DP says it when she has been with her family a lot and somehow I always get the impression that it brings out the anger from her childhood.

I think it's regional. My midlands friend is forever making the same grammatical errors

Instantly makes the person saying it look dim and not exactly classy. I see it on here all the time too.

Same as "I done it." Did. Or have done. Pick one.

Where has everyone went? Lol

This is interesting, IME.www.bl.uk/british-accents-and-dialects/articles/grammatical-variation-across-the-uk

I absolutely love regional differences. I work with someone who not only says 'we was' but also 'missen' for 'myself' and 'thissen' for 'yourself'.

Yeah, I speak like that casually. I know it's incorrect.

"We was there yesterday"
"I seen him the other day"

I wouldn't write like that formally or speak like that to anybody other than my friends. I received A*s in English Lit and Lang GCSE and have a degree, it just comes out sometimes with certain people. A tone switch or something, idk.

I also use "I done it already".

I'm not sure it's dialect for me. I grew up in a home county, now in London.

@AuntieJoyce My DH is from Essex and definitely doesn't speak like that!

That's not incorrect though. It's "My sen" and "Your sen" which comes from Middle English "selven".

‘Them’ instead of ‘those’ annoys me. Pass me them oranges.

I have to admit, all of the inaccuracies mentioned on this thread only seem to be said by British (Isles) people - ironically, you don’t hear people from other English-speaking countries say them.

(Sorry, Yorkshirewoman and language nerd!)

YABU. It's a regional thing . A lot of folk in the North say we was , or them instead of they .

Yes!! My mother in law speaks like this ( uneducated though) so does my husband ( grew up in Luton). Whenever he says this to my children I shout were not was.! Thankfully my children don't say it!
Oh, another one...that'll learn him..wtf. that'll teach him!