Please bare with me

[TheShellBeach]

See also "I am defiantly not pregnant".

my people - thank you for this
I think we've lost the battle on myself being a reflexive verb, it's used so often to mean me or I. I fear for the future

"I turned round and said".

I imagine rooms of people spinning and it makes me feel giddy

Someone at work said ‘brung’ the other day instead of brought.
Dinning room is a good one. A room where you go to make a lot of noise?

Lent!

I believe that StrawberryAnnie corrected herself in a follow up post immediately after the above post.

We have also started to lose the ability to understand how a gerund works in a sentence.

Someone at work said ‘brung’ the other day instead of brought.

That's a common dialect usage in some areas.

Just seen a new one on another thread : a "loan" parent!

ARGH!

This, courtesy of Ed Sheeran:

I'm in love with the shape of you
We push and pull like a magnet do
Although my heart is falling too
I'm in love with your body

That makes no actual sense. The grammar police need to arrest him.

That makes no actual sense. The grammar police need to arrest him.

And the science police.

It should be "We push and pull like two magnets do" - a single magnet can pull a piece of ferromagnetic material, but you need more than one to get a push. Twerp.

Excellent point.

It should even be "we attract and repel like two magnets do" (except it doesn't scan and the sex reference is lost!)

This is why I love pedants.

I've also seen 'in dept'!

Oh, I dunno - some people are repelled by some sex acts....................although I suppose it doesn't work for a love song.

Send help. Someone has started a thread with the title

"How do I find out who's number this is"

It cost me a good deal to type that, I can assure you.

<faints>

I almost answered her with the remark "Don't you mean "WHOSE"? but I managed to restrain myself.

I did, and got told 'get tae fuck'.

Oops. Methinks the lady hails from north of the border, like me.

"Get tae fuck" is an typical term of opprobrium in the lower-class type of Scot.

My DH has never used it when annoyed with me

I was going to respond with 'Away hame to yer mammy, lavvy heid' (courtesy of the Daily Record) but decided that discretion was the better part of valour.

Love this thread. Baffled by 'In do time' several dozens of posts back - 'in due time'?

I'd like to contribute the increasing confusion over substitute. I often see this in comments on recipes, in something like this.

I didn't have oregano, so I substituted it for basil.

No, you substituted it with basil. (I think. I see the word used wrongly so often now I'm starting to doubt myself.)

See also: swap out. We used to say just 'swap', didn't we?

"I went shop" drives me up the wall. Put "to the" in! Or an -ing on the end if you can really only manage one more syllable.

In the same vein, I'll concede that "needs done/finished" is commonly used in Scotland, but it still sounds like there's something missing to me.

"Is this aloud" rather than "allowed"
Gets me every time.

Not sure if this is just me but when people refer to mental health problems or poor mental health they just say mental health. Example; people can't wfh due to mental health or that person has mental health. It's not a full statement. Is it just me?