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.

I said to the dog, "Lay down." The dog didn't take any notice. The older woman in the room said to me, "We lay the table and hens lay eggs but apart from that it's 'lie'. She looked at the dog and said, "Lie down." The dog knew a bit of good grammar when she heard it, and she obediently lay down.

I have a thread in here for the exact opposite reason

Totally normal in Scotland. Jag is used because a needle is sharp or 'jaggy' as we would say.

A jab is a punch anyway 😂

I always say that jab makes no sense because it’s a blunt force. A jag is sharp.

@QuestionableMouse , but this is Pedants’ Corner, for people who do get steamed up about sloppy/incorrect SPAG.

If you’re not bothered, probably best to stay away.

My current peeve is ‘Lurpack’ - in posts from people who evidently habitually buy it (since they’re moaning about price increases) so they must have seen the name dozens of times. So why they can’t they spell it defeats me.
It’s Lurpak!
And I don’t even buy the stuff - U.K. butter is fine for me.

Oops, delete that ‘they’!

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@PAFMO except it's not a thread about a threat (TAAT) - it's a thread that's inspired by another thread.

Looking at the Mumsnet Talk guidelines it doesn't mention a TAAT rule anyway: www.mumsnet.com/i/netiquette

This is my last message on the matter as the majority of the responses have been what the thread is a about... is it "lie in", "lay in", or what's been nice to learn is that there are other terms like "long lie".

It's nice when people take things in the spirit that they're meant, rather than wilfully looking for offence.

I remember being told things lay, people lie.

Exactly!

But if you get laid during your lie in, it becomes a lay in.

What confuses me more is sleeping out versus sleeping in.
I tend to use them interchangeably, but, if pushed, would say that sleeping in was perhaps intentional (ie a lie-in), while if I said that I slept out I would mean that I overslept.
I think 🤔

My ex used to tell his daughter to "go asleep" rather than "go to sleep"

😤😤😤😤

Is a lay in not like some kind of orgy sit in?

I've never heard 'sleep out' to mean 'oversleep'. I think I've only come across it for kids camping in the garden - an outdoors sleep over.

I concede on the jab/jag business as I know jag is what’s used in Scotland but my irish family say it too and it bugs me 🙈 But you do make a good point that it’s a jagged thing you’re being jabbed by 😂

I have another and it’s everywhere; I love a YouTube haul video but the amount of times people say “I brought this X,Y,Z for £X” instead of “bought”. I really don’t know how you can get this wrong 🤷🏽‍♀️ I always want to ask where they did they “bring” it from 😂