YOU WERE NOT SAT, YOU WERE SITTING. ARRRRGH.

[ohmymimi]

And breathe. Sorry, if I post on AIBU I'll get snotty comments.

Oh god yes I'm with you on this....I despise 'was sat'. It makes me feel like Victor Meldrew inside.

The one that makes me see red is 'Advanced Warning'. I always want to yell 'Where's the Basic Warning?' It's Advance. ADVANCE ADVANCE ADVANCE!!!!!

Gosh, that's better.

'I was sat' is one of my MIL's pet hates.

For some reason, I am currently being irked by people who are 'adverse' to things.

I was sat, the waiter sat me by the window?

I always think: who are you to tell me that your version of English is 'better' than mine?

^^ yes that

I'm getting quite irritated with the BBC commentators saying 'she is currently sat in the gold medal position'. No she isn't! She is sitting

Totally with you OP!

(Gary - I'm also from the West Country)

One of my pet hates at Olympics time is the use of medal as a verb.

The verb is meddle which means something entirely different.

And also saying that a single competitor will have to go back and regroup.

This is Pedants' Corner, not the Dialect Appreciation Society- people in the West Country can say what they like, and I love the way they flaunt their disregard for grammar by saying things like "'er's sat by the window" (translation; "It is sitting by the window"), but that doesn't make it grammatically correct.

We have standards here, and they are higher than Timothy Leary on a Sunday.

Gary I grew up in the Vale of Evesham, where Asum be spoke. Folks ud say theym wuz sat all over the shop, an oyl tell thee fer why, coz when yoom frum Asum you bist uzter a sayin it. Oy beunt in Asum ne more an Oy sez 'was sitting' because it is grammatically correct and I'm a pedant.

But feel free to be annoyed.

BabyMummy Makes me grind my teeth too. Hadn't picked up on the singleton regrouping. Something else to shout at the TV at, thanks BM

A presenter on breakfast TV said this earlier this week.

prism Timothy Leary! I miss the sixties now I'm in my sixties.

'the Sixties'

Dialect is fine. Sat is creeping into regular use. Posting in Pedants' Corner however, is preaching to the converted. Nobody is going to see this and change their ungrammatical ways.

Given that 'literal' is now defined in the OED as also meaning 'figurative', I think we should all just give up and converse in a series of grunts and shrugs.

I'm so glad to have found this section where I can get things off my chest and share them with like-minded pedants.

I think if these comments were posted in a general thread, you would just get the usual "SPAG doesn't matter anyway" sort of comments.

Let me see; "SPAG"- is it Alphabetti Spaghetti, but with correct spelling and grammar?

at prism and Timothy Leary on a Sunday. I also remember the Sixties, ohmymimi.

I particulary love outraged threads about "I was sat" because this is a linguistic quirk that can't be blamed on us Americans.

Showy--that was the moment when the OED jumped the shark. I can no longer revere it as a resource.

oh fuck i know

i corrected someone only today wrt that

www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/ask_about_english/071231/

With regard to *catkind's post.
Wouldn't it be seated, as in the waiter seated me by the window?
Genuine question, not a dig.

I hate "I was sat". I also hate "I was laid (but pronounced led) down" - so "I was led down when..."

Re. medal - I find the habit of turning nouns into verbs really annoying. And vice versa! When I'm marking essays, I make a point of targeting things such as 'This impacts on the reader..." and "This quote means..."
I also hate the word 'relatable' meaning, I think, that we can relate to something a writer says - so "Duffy's description of love is very relatable"

The non-pedants in the world really don't want me as their English teacher

I like this article on 'literally'.