‘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?

Am I weird? I can cope with these, it doesn't really bother me and I do speak correctly but for some reason when someone is spelling P phonetically and they say Papa (pu parrrr) in a really posh accent it drives me nuts, really grates for some reason 😂

Fgs get a life 😂 it’s called a colloquialism

“Needs gone” grates on me
just like the H - Aitch not Haitch thing

“I aren’t” - is a dialect example - Hull
as is “yous” - Liverpool

“We was” northern? I’m
a northern girl and have never regularly heard it
IMO it’s just lazy, bad grammar

Makes people sound thick. Can't tolerate it. H does it with his football crowd. I walk away.

Yes, these all wind me up too.

I'll add those that write "his" instead of "he is" or "he's".

i also read a post on MN earlier where the poster had twice written "I aren't".

Is it a Londoner thing?

'I was sat'
Instead of 'I was sitting'
This is used SO much these days I don't think people realise it's incorrect !

The worst thing i hear since moving ‘down south’ is ‘off of’ ie I bought this off of Amazon …. Grrr

It's not as annoying as people who say "these ones". It's these. I'd like these. Not these ones. I think this battle is lots though.

I’m with @LisaVanderpump1 . ‘Do you want a lift with Karen and myself?’ drives me spare. A surprising number of otherwise well spoken people say this, perhaps because they are not confident of the correct form ‘Do you want a lift with Karen and me?’

Wasn’t it Michael Gove who brought reflexive pronouns back into the curriculum? I have heard him make this mistake on television several times. It is pretentious

I am fine with all the other mistakes cited here; they are more natural. I don’t want to make people self conscious or to lose dialects. I agree that an effort should be made to use proper grammar in educational settings

Actually what would be worse is ‘ I brought this off of amazon’

Not sure it's as simple as that.

I'm from East Kent, and growing up in the 70s / 80s I remember many people saying "we was" across all age ranges, including elderly people. It's not new.

Interesting article here:
www.bl.uk/british-accents-and-dialects/articles/regional-voices-non-standard-grammar

Mmmmm...don't think so, it's just piss poor grammar.

It’s really fick.

It’s a Laaaandaaan fing.

Exactly!

The other one is come instead of came. And I don't mean in the sexual sense ☺️

As in "my mum come home from the shops" - it sounds sooo thick!

The number of times I see "could of","would of " and "should of" drives me nuts.

Aaargh!

Was and done I’d annoying but language moves on so there we go.

Ooo I don't even say me... I'd say 'pass us them'

It’s regional I think. It’s drives me insane. Which is a shame as it’s quite prevalent where I live currently. I have to grit my teeth when I hear it.

It isn't though. Because though I say it, I wouldn't write it.

Omg “needs gone” is the absolute worst. Needs+past participle needs to end asap.

I’m from London but now live in the S E and I’ve noticed “he’s” used a lot in text and speech instead of his.

Obv you’re and your wind me up. If someone gets them wrong I don’t think we can get along 🎵

Yes. As I posted earlier: unless someone sat you there, you were sitting

I hate it. I hear people at work on the phone asking questions of our customers ‘where was you?’ instead of ‘where were you living then?’ etc

Sometimes I can’t help myself say ‘WERE, WERE’ out loud 🤭🤭