‘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?

We was walking through the woods and I seen something scary. I could of had a heart attack.

The above makes me want to tear my eyes out.

I had a phone conversation with someone who persisted in saying ‘I’ll contact yourself’ and ‘You can contact myself’ to such an extent that I eventually corrected him.

The local FB page is full of all the errors mentioned above. It annoys me daily.

Oh joy, is this a companion thread to the one about most people loathing Essex / Cockney accents?

I'm from London / Essex and use a lot of the phrases on this thread. Not when writing, but when speaking to friends from the same area. It is the same as any other dialect variant.

I'm perfectly well educated thanks, including possessing an English degree.

We're pregnant is another

And someone called Sam 'Sam is tired today'

Equally as annoying when someone says 'I was sat with them at dinner...' no you weren't ' you were sitting with them at dinner'... drives me insane

@5128gap that's about right. I once realised if I were to buy his and hers towels for my parents it would be isen and ern.

Obviously I completely understand my parents but have an uncle that still requires a translator.

It's usually quite funny seeing the mutual incomprehension when my family meet DH's, lots of polite smiling and nodding as they're from foreign parts...all the way from Lancashire.

When a nice but slightly snobby friend met them for the first time she asked me later how I sounded so normal! I was offended for my parents but sadly pleased for me as I had it bullied out of me at grammar school by the teachers rather than pupils.

@supersop60 I had an English lecturer at Uni that said he same thing, he was fascinated by it.

It's fascinating as long as that's not the only way you know how to talk!

I'm so glad I'm not the only one.

I also am really confused - as a non-native English speaker - why all of a sudden people write 'alot' 'abit' and 'aswell'. It stands out to me every time.

Surely in that context it'd be 'I was seated with them at dinner'? The point isn't that you were all sitting down, is it? The point is that you had been placed next to them on that occasion.

'Could of' instead of 'could have' is also annoying!

(And, not that it matters, but I think you mean 'equally annoying' not 'equally as').

Crap education. Excused in children, idiocy in adults.

'I was sat with them'

By whom?

Yes! Thank you for posting this. I moved from the North East to Grimsby and it absolutely grates on me that they say 'we was'. The kids all write it in their lessons and I don't think the teachers correct it as they all say it too! It makes me wonder how their GCSEs are marked because surely a grammatical error such as that must lose them marks??

So many influencers write like that.

I just don’t understand this sort of response. The errors above are grammatical and making them suggests you are not terribly well educated.

In any case, if you know the correct part of speech you surely just use it automatically. You don’t take days off when you decide not to bother. 🙄

@bigbluebus I'm from the East end and live in Essex, I don't speak like that either. However, it is rife here. DS sometimes comes back from nursery sounding like an extra from TOWIE or EastEnders

One that really bugs me is the use of "whom" as the subject of the sentence. I've no idea why people do it - possibly to sound more intelligent, but it ends up having the opposite effect! For example, "I'm going to find out whom ate all the cookies" or "The meeting is for those whom are new to the village".

Absolute rot

A Northerner

An English degree? Really?

Teehee…

Hooray for those who care about speaking properly. This is something that particularly irritates me.

Yeah I find it irritating too. I try and remember lots of people have parents who would've said it too so they don't realise it's incorrect.

Based on this thread alone I should say it's fairly obvious that most of these are common grammatical mistakes made by the poorly educated through the entire country.

Not regional dialects

Agreed. Bonkers!😆

Does the poster not realise that one type of language is formal and the other is informal?!
Either is acceptable depending on the style of speech or writing. Lol