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Can you ‘borrow’ me some money

20 replies

FiveFarthings · 05/09/2019 12:39

Gaaaaaaa! Lend! The phrase is ‘Can you lend me some money?’ God I can’t stand this! How has this become a thing?!

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noroominthefridge · 05/09/2019 14:09

I hate this too. I expect someone will be along in a minute to claim that it is a "regional" thing. It isn't. It is just wrong.

Jesse70 · 05/09/2019 14:10

It's like when someone itches an itch no you scratch an itch

Harls1969 · 07/09/2019 09:46

Borrow me some money goes hand in hand with 'can you learn me how to do that' 🤦

Fifthtimelucky · 07/09/2019 17:19

Annoying, but nothing new. I've been hearing 'can you borrow me some', 'can you learn me' and 'itching an itch' for at least 50 years.

Bouffalant · 07/09/2019 18:00

No as bad as saying someone "learned" you how to do something.

TAUGHT.

TAUGHT TAUGHT TAUGHT.

iklboo · 07/09/2019 18:07

I won him at darts.

Lovely. Did you put him on your mantelpiece?

Mumofboth · 07/09/2019 18:10

I hate the “word” yous. YOU can be both singular and plural. YOUS is not a word. 🤬🤬🤬

Rachelover40 · 07/09/2019 18:11

I don't like it at all and it isn't a regional thing. I've not heard it often but when I do I get confused.

If you are receiving a loan of money, you are borrowing. If you are disbursing a loan of money, you are lending.

MsAwesomeDragon · 07/09/2019 18:14

It goes with "can I lend a pen?" Which is what I hear at school ALL the time!!! "Of course you can, who would you like to lend it to?" Doesn't go down well.

Ginfordinner · 07/09/2019 18:21

Yous is Northern Irish. Everything else is simply uneducated.

Rachelover40 · 07/09/2019 20:34

'Yous' is also used in SE London, in the cockney area (Bermondsey/Rotherhithe). It's horrible. I had no idea it was also a NI thing, I have relatives from there who have never said 'yous'.

Meanpeoplesuck · 07/09/2019 22:54

Aaaaaah! Relief.

I have found my people!

(btw, I'm not fond of the word "persons")

MrsA2015 · 07/09/2019 22:58

I “brought” instead of “bought” makes my teeth itch. Another is when people say “drink my tablets” you don’t drink the tablet, you drink the water that you’re TAKING the tablet with. You take a tablet. Looking at you PIL Envy

iklboo · 08/09/2019 10:15

Yous is Northern Irish

Also NW England.

highheelsandbobblehats · 01/10/2019 22:46

Borrow is a regional thing. My husband is West Midlands and he says this all the time 'I can borrow you some money'. No. You can lend me some money.
We've been together 19 years. If I've not broken him by now...

ConFusion360 · 01/10/2019 22:56

Brought instead of bought also seems to be common in the West Midlands.

I used hear borrow and lend mixed up in the North West. I've also heard Americans moaning about it too.

ConFusion360 · 01/10/2019 22:57

I used to hear...

SorryDidISayThatOutLoud · 01/10/2019 22:59

@highheelsandbobblehats it's NOT a regional thing. I'm West Midlands born and bred. I lend things TO people and borrow them FROM people. There will always be people who say "will you borrow me a pen". It's not because it's said regionally, it's because they are utterly crap at grammar.

SpoonBlender · 01/10/2019 23:12

The only person I've ever heard use borrow backwards was from South Shields, but he's also the only person I've known from there so I dunno if it's a localism or not.

highheelsandbobblehats · 02/10/2019 11:14

@SorryDidISayThatOutLoud

Excuse me then. I hear it from everyone around his area so made the natural assumption.

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