“Stay home”

[Piglet89]

Am I alone in mourning the demise of the preposition in this phrase (I imagine because we have copied America) almost as I mourn the restrictions upon our life and Liberty?

[Khione]

I agree

Language changes but (in my view) we need to not absorb American English.

Having said that - the French didn't get very far banning 'le weekend'

[Piglet89]

So true!

[FaFoutis]

Thank you for the sanity Piglet.

Stay AT home.
Uphold standards.

[MikeUniformMike]

I saw that yesterday.

I am mourning the loss of the article.

[lazylinguist]

You are not alone, but there is nothing one can do to stop the slide. We shouldn't mind really though. All the perfectly correct language we use is just the latest stage in the continuous evolution of language, dictated by fashion, innovation and influence by other languages! Some usage still makes me twitch though.

[MikeUniformMike]

I of come to the conclusion, that have and of will soon become interchangeable.
The usual reason that is given is that they "sound the same".
I don't understand because they do not sound the same to me.

None and non- irritate me too. How could none contagious mean not contagious?

How about I text her yesterday?

Other annoyances include the starting of sentences with So, and getting Me, Myself and I mixed up.

I can't bare it

[ExpletiveDelighted]

Phased being used instead of fazed is my pet annoyance at the moment.

[NetballHoop]

Noone is a pet hate of mine. How hard is it to understand that they are TWO simple words?

I've also had repeated "heresays" today and it's not yet 10.

[MikeUniformMike]

Nobody is one word.

Up most, anyone?

Most of the culprits speak one language only. They have been educated for 12 years in the medium of that language. I despair.

[NetballHoop]

@MikeUniformMike, I take your point about nobody but I still shudder at noone.

[FaFoutis]

Yes Mike 'I text her yesterday' is an abomination.
I doubt the users of this phrase are getting it from the historical present tense used on Radio 4 but it's all going the same way - language and meaning are getting more distant from each other.

[SoupDragon]

Isn't "stay home" right though? In the same way as you "go home" 🤔

It only works with certain "places" like home and outdoors.

[SoupDragon]

You can't "stay work" for example. I wonder why...

[lazylinguist]

Good point about 'go home'. Home is being used as an adverb there instead of a noun. So in theory there's no reason why you couldn't do the same with 'stay home', but 'stay at home' is the idiomatic norm (in England at least).

[eddiemairswife]

Can't 'stay work' mean stopping work for the time being?

[AskingQuestionsAllTheTime]

Stop 'ome, that's what it had ought to be...

[campion]

I was going to start a thread with the same title. It's such a comfort to find it's not just me who is irritated by the lack of 'at' in the advice.

Did they think that three words would be too confusing?

[tinkiiev]

Thank you! It's really winding me up. Although the letter from Boris did get it right.

[RollingDownTheRiver]

"Stay home" has been annoying me too. On the gov.uk website it is "stay at home" so a partial redemption in my view.

[Greenteandchives]

Here here OP.

[FlamedToACrisp]

The letter from Boris had a double space - if he can't employ a decent typist...

[FindingAUserNameIsReallyHarc]

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime

Or just : "Stop in"