Please bare with me

[TheShellBeach]

See also "I am defiantly not pregnant".

[ginslinger]

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

[CaroleFuckingBaskin]

"I turned round and said".

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

[Tlolljs]

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?

[halfsiesonapotnoodle]

@StrawberryAnnie

Chester draws

‘borrowed’ when meaning leant

Lent!

[WestendVBroadway]

@halfsiesonapotnoodle

Lent!

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

[TheShellBeach]

@ginslinger

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

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

[ErrolTheDragon]

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

That's a common dialect usage in some areas.

[GU24Mum]

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

[TheShellBeach]

@ErrolTheDragon

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

That's a common dialect usage in some areas.

ARGH!

[NotRainingToday]

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.

[ErrolTheDragon]

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.

[NotRainingToday]

@ErrolTheDragon

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!)

[TheShellBeach]

@ErrolTheDragon

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.

This is why I love pedants.

[teaandtoastwithmarmite]

I've also seen 'in dept'!

[TheShellBeach]

@NotRainingToday

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!)

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

[TheShellBeach]

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.

[QueenSmartypants]

<faints>

[TheShellBeach]

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

[SaintLoy]

@TheShellBeach

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'.

[TheShellBeach]

@SaintLoy

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

[SaintLoy]

@TheShellBeach

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.

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

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?

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

"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.

[emmetgirl]

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

[teaandtoastwithmarmite]

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?