I seen

[AmICrazyToEvenBother]

What fresh hell is this and why am I suddenly seeing this everywhere?

An understandable mistake in some accents though, where I live lots of people say being and been in exactly the same way.

@tobee

NNNNOOOOOOOOO

Very normal phrasing in Scotland - I’ve even heard teacher using it who would know that it’s not grammatically correct - I do see this one as colloquialism.

I knew one recently ‘Was you going?’ Instead of ‘Were you going?’ 🤮 and the absolute worst ‘that is so much worst’ instead of ‘so much worse’ makes me cringe every time!!

Some examples…

Hope it has went well!

Dr has went all shy now

…and one which was an actual thread title

Buyer has went AWOL on completion day

Accents and location are not excuses for being unable to talk properly! I don't give a shit if it's 'normal' in wales, it's wrong everywhere!

Ooh does anyone remember Hylda Baker. Arms folded sat sitting 😁

Aarrgh
’needs done’
’needs gone’

As for ‘sat sitting’, wasn’t that Hylda (Nellie Pledge) Baker????

X post @MrsGrimshaw !!

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This has always been very common in NE Scotland. We had a teacher who was asking the children to copy from the board about a walk they'd had around the town -
"We seen a garage"
"We seen lots of houses" etc etc

Did Hylda Baker also say, "Be soon, I say, be soon.?

'I seen it' and 'I done it' were both very common where I grew up in Essex. Another very common one was 'I ain't done nuffink'.

Regional dialect, innit?

Or, the other way around: 'His a good kid', 'His not going' 😬

Recently I've seen it the other way round on here - people writing "his" instead of "he's" for example: His gone to the shops.
I find it annoying as my internal voice reads it as it's written and it is so wrong. The same way many people write loose instead of lose (particularly in weight loss threads) and as I read it in my head I'm hearing the wrong word. If any of that makes sense!!

Snap! Glad I'm not the only one who's noticed!