To hate people using ‘me’ instead of’my’

[soallannoyed]

I know I’m being unreasonable but it’s bloody annoying.

I'm sure there are words which pronounced in your accent are grating to others.

OP Do you find people speaking a different language offensive too? That's what this is.

Yep. "Oi, pass us mi tea. Pass it us! Ne'er mind, I'll do it mi'sen."

People who give out () about haitch annoy me more than any regional variation.

Shudders

Spoken as part of a regional dialect I don’t mind it, it’s kind of charming. It’s not just people using an incorrect word, like “would of”.

This is a funny one to me because “I would of” instead of “I would have” annoys me no end but the use of the word would when describing something that happened in the past “she would’ve went to the shop and come home at ten past 3” makes perfect sense to me when spoken out loud - but when written down I can see it is mind boggling

as for the thread - I say me for my , I’m Irish 🤷‍♀️

Don't you get any enjoyment out of different regional dialects @soallannoyed ? Or do you just like people who are exactly the same as you? Embrace the differences instead of turning your nose up. I'm from Yorkshire, you'd walk around in a bubble of rage round here by the sounds of it. We all say mi instead of my 😬

Irish people of a certain age now have earworms of Where's me jumper?

Knew it wouldn't be long before the terminally offended popped up and accused OP of being xenophobic lol

Seriously lol that's a bit of a reach

I live just outside Liverpool and everyone says it here, apart from the more well spoken amongst us. I swop and change me and my all the time and consider myself quite well spoken. It’s just not an issue here at all.

I have no problems with ‘me’ instead of ‘my’ - that’s dialect.

But it’s when me replaces I, or when I or myself replace me that I cringe.

It's northern.

I do it when expressing light hearted dialogue:

" 'Am dying for me Tea😋"
(evening meal served at 5 or 6pm OP)

That would be the more formal/RP way of pronouncing an unstressed second syllable. RP is all but gone now, not even the younger royals use it anymore, so yes, it's probably older people who still use it.

It's extremely correct though.

It isn't though, is it? And it never is on these threads.

People being offensive and insulting about other people's way of speaking.

I could say I "hate" people who can't, or won't, punctuate what they're writing, but that would make me a bit of a twat.

Pretty much every single one of your posts makes me cringe.

I agree, it’s properly annoying.

Oh dear.

So we're dismissing Northern Irish (and not only) Catholics now, are we?
We perhaps shouldn't go down that route.

(Search the numerous threads in Pedants' Corner about this - look up sectarian shibboleths if you can't find them)

Rather that than the use of the term "Bin looking for a"...

So many people on our local FB groups put bin instead of "I have been looking"

Surely it's just a spoken dialect thing? Dialects are a good thing, and I'm glad they still exist. There are many worse things, such as so called educated professionals, eg writers, journalists, broadcasters, who can't use English correctly. Sadly there's little escape from that if you wish to read books, newspapers, listen to the radio and so on.

Mum is in my phone as Me Mam.

I don’t mind “me” instead of “my” at all. Love regional dialects and accents.
I do find the constant use of “innit”, “bruv”, “bro” etc really annoying. Regional dialects are interesting but the assumed limited vocabulary with pseudo “gangster” mumblings of sections of young people make me wonder about the gene pool. I expect someone will pop up to tell me this is a new regional dialect and that language is always evolving now.

Fair enough! I still can't stand it though! Might be biased because my FIL does it who I also can't stand 😂

It's simply a dialect form, much the same as the errant r is usual in many parts of the country, barth, parth etc., they probably sound as odd in areas where they're not used.
None are as annoying as incorrect speech, 'I should of', 'myself and John' and so on, though I can almost understand 'would of' in speech but seeing it written is awful.