Grammar police

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there is no such word as 'Et' as in 'I et spaghetti for dinner, I et the lot!'
If you want to say 'eat' as in past tense, the word, my friends is 'ate' ATE! Do you hear me!!!!???

Also 'i were sat there' NO! Wrong!
I was sitting there... OR I sat there.
Got it? Good.

'Ey up, just because I'm from Yorkshire, and pronounce things a bit differently, I still spell them correctly most of the time thanks to autocorrect

I love regional accents and variations, I could listen to the Scottish accent for hours :o

What does annoy me though is when my son copies his friends in school who say me instead of I, so for example me want an ice cream his teacher said they correct him, and we do too, and he knows the correct way, it just really grates on me!

Upper class poshos say Hie Nie Brine Kie as well.

"Sly".....a town the other side of the M4 from Windsor

Or is "to Windsor".

CheesyPoof-

A poorly made point is often spectacularly misunderstood! ;-)

Well you could say a well made point can be easily misunderstood if the person reading it is a bit stooopid

From, Hester, from.
LittleMGB, I thought you were being annoyed by "I" instead of "Me" until I read your post more carefully. My annoyance is caused by "He gave it to my DD and I", for example, or, as a poster asked recently, "Please settle an argument between DH and I" , or as Dr Dawn said on 'Embarrassing Bodies', "You are through to Christian and I in the studio". No one would say "he gave it to I" or " You are through to I". It always seems like a misguided attempt to be posh. Propositions take the accusative case.

I said a poorly made point.....

Oh dear

Nevermind.........

Hint I get annoyed by that use of 'I' and use me in those examples, but my son does it like me want an ice cream, me played in the sand etc!

I don't even attempt to sound posh! I'm from Yorkshire, I don't do posh :o

Isn't Harrogate in Yorkshire? That's very posh!

Ooh yes Harrogate is vair posh, they have a waitrose! I probably should remember that being as my parents live there

Waitrose-possessing is the ultimate gauge of poshness in a town

though Barry has one.

I love that image of the queen SP.

peevish - does it matter that much, though? It's natural that languages lose (and gain) constructions, isn't it? I mean, obviously in the short term it is a problem for them as other people may wonder what the heck they're on about, but long term, well, that may just be how the language goes.

I always love that 'butterfly' comes from 'flutter-by', but the reversed version is easier to stay (please no-one tell me this is an urban myth).

LRD Glad someone noticed Can imagine her sat in throne chair thing shouting 'Charlie, do you want a cuppa love?' 'We off t' Iceland Kate, need prawn rings for tea'

I can absolutely imagine it. It's the frosty glare and the hairstyle, to me it looks very Yorkshire. Not to mention when she's got one of those scarf-type thingies over her head. She just needs to stoop a bit more and have a pack of fags peeking out of her cardie and I'd swear I'd seen her all over York.

'You got a light Will, I need t' roll mi baccy'

Well, if nothing else, it'd all make sense of Harry.

Our Hazza has a Birmingham accent I think.

If you say so. I've got to say, just looking at Kate I somehow expect her to be broad Essex, but she's not.

bet Carole is though

Actually, isn't Carole posher than the Queen and more directly in line to the throne than the whole lot of 'em or something? Or is that another urban myth?

and is the OP still googling madly to prove me wrong

That was unkind of me. Sorry. But she did call me smug.

Which I am, a bit.