It's a 'lie in' not a 'lay in'!

[tashadoesntlikeyouandrew]

Just reading a thread about having a 'lay in'.

AIBU to think it's called a 'lie in' NOT a 'lay in'?

Lay in just sounds wrong.

[KangarooKenny]

Yep, it’s a lie in.

[FishcakesWithTooMuchCoriander]

This drives me mad too. 🤣

[KnightonShiningArmour]

Yep. I hate the way this has crept into usage.


To lie - to be in or move into a horizontal position on a surface.

To lay - to put something in especially a flat or horizontal position, usually carefully or for a particular purpose.

How can people get this wrong?

[ErrolTheDragon]

Maybe it depends what exactly you're doing in bed in the morning?

[JackieCollinshasnoauthority]

Either way, I wish I'd had one this morning!

[CounsellorTroi]

And it’s not “a phenomena” it’s a phenomenon. Phenomena is the plural.

[Mushroo]

@ErrolTheDragon

Maybe it depends what exactly you're doing in bed in the morning?

😅

Agree OP - it’s definitely a lie in!!

[Xanthovalent]

DH does this. Drives me mad.
He knows the difference (as I have explained it to him a few times now) - doesn't care.
He uses a lot of colloquialisms in his everyday speech that he never uses when on business calls...

[lolil]

I think making a blatant thread to act superior about someone else's thread title is worse than using an incorrect word.

What a horrible thing to do

[Skinnermarink]

its lie in but I really had to wrack my brains to think since I’ve not fucking had one in over a year.

DH has had plenty so I should have just asked him.

[ShinyMe]

I have a colleague who uses 'lay' to mean 'lie' and it drives me (silently) up the wall. She's always on about how she 'needs a long lay' and how when she gets home she's going to 'lay on the bed for a bit' or how she loves to spend Friday night 'laying on the settee'. Unless she is just having a massively busy sex life, but I doubt it somehow.
She also uses 'alot' in emails regularly. I mentioned that to her once and she was all 'haha yes I know it's wrong lol but Imma still gonna do it alot'.

[Frazzled2207]

with you on this drive me up the wall.
LIE IN
not that I get any, ever

[balalake]

If only that was the only example of poor English grammar that has crept in. When I was at university in the 1980s one of the English degree students argued that adverbs would largely disappear from use in 20 years, a prediction that came true.

[BestIsWest]

Drives me mad too.

[clpsmum]

It doesn't matter!!!!

[NiqueNique]

It does matter. Language should be used properly.

[GlamorousHeifer]

Same as 'needs fixed' ....no, it needs fixing!

[KnightonShiningArmour]

The topic of this thread is different. OP is asking if people think she’s BU for not agreeing with the term.

Nothing superior or horrid about it. What would be horrid is plopping on that thread about poor grammar or coming on this thread to call people big meanies.

[EmoIsntDead]

Nah, it’s a ‘long lie’ 😆

[TheGoogleMum]

It doesn't annoy me as much as those who replace 'have' with 'of' e.g would of (they mean would've surely?)

[IcedOatLatte]

@clpsmum

It doesn't matter!!!!

Clearly it does to all the posters who are agreeing.

You not being bothered doesn't equal proper use language not mattering

[0blio]

Where I'm from it's a long lie.

[ErrolTheDragon]

@KnightonShiningArmour

Yep. I hate the way this has crept into usage.


To lie - to be in or move into a horizontal position on a surface.

To lay - to put something in especially a flat or horizontal position, usually carefully or for a particular purpose.

How can people get this wrong?

People get it wrong because the words are so similar and it's widespread. Maybe in my generation the confusion for some comes from the King James Bible wording of a psalm used as a prayer - it is grammatically correct but a bit subtle.

“I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.”

[ShakespearesSisters]

Definitely "lie-in", it irritates me when some one says lay-in. Also "off-line", nooooo, you went "on-line" to buy, view, whatever.

[lolil]

@NiqueNique

It does matter. Language should be used properly.

Language is communication. Everyone knew what was meant.