“I was sat” 😤

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Why do people no longer say “i was sitting”?

You explanations are correct.

but “I was sat” is 100% wrong.

I just ignored the poster who said this. I think they’re trying to be clever as in my OP the “I” isn’t capitalised. But it is obvious that it is an autocorrect failure.

Saying “I was sat” isn’t a typo or an autocorrect failure, it is poor grammar.

The Beatles didn't sing "I Saw Her Stood There" 😹

I don't think I've ever noticed me and dh went... That doesn't irritate me too much which is probably why I don't notice it.

What is insanely common is "she gave that to dh and I". That one drives me completely insane.

I know 'I sat' is technically incorrect, but to me it's more descriptive of the feeling sometimes. I think it's fine to use. Language changes. Look at some of the abominations that are now in the dictionary.

I was sat in the waiting room for an hour - conveys more annoyance than

i was sitting in the waiting room for an hour

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It annoys me more than is reasonable. Particularly as I hear it even on Radio 4 -.all the bloody time. Radio 4! Nowhere is safe.

Unless someone placed you there, you were sitting.

“I was sat” is and always has been grammatically incorrect.

At a time in my life when I was learning French and Latin I learned the imperfect tense, which I expect is a different name for what you call the past continuous: I was sitting or I used to sit, et cetera.

It's one of the several past tenses and I think we use it to talk about something we did in the past but over a period of time rather than just the once.

Well, I've been sitting here for quite long enough and there are post-elevenses errands to be done.

'The same sort of people'

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Which is what I said.

Yes! I was arguing with my son about this a couple of weeks ago, so he went to ask his English teacher who said it was good grammar! Another one I hate is the pronunciation of the letter H as ‘Haich’.

You might have a point if people were only using it to indicate annoyance or frustration but they're not. They are using it purely as the past continuous so it conveys no more annoyance than I was sitting.

I'm of an era where grammar was absorbed rather than explicitly taught so past continuous may not be the correct term. I'm loosely translating from the Irish "aimsir gnáthcháite" as we did learn Irish grammar. Aimsir = tense, gnáth = usual/customary but in this instance it means habitual or continuous and c(h)áite = past.

Haich is the correct pronunciation in Hiberno English. I think that is also the case for Scottish English.

🤷🏻‍♀️ well it's not something I say anyway, I just don't get bothered when others do.

now 'we was' on the other hand makes me quite murderous & a close friend says it all the time. He's beyond help!

We all have our pet peeves. The incorrect use of "Mary and I" drives me insane whereas the incorrect use of "Mary and me" doesn't particularly bother me.

Yes I know you did. “I was sat sitting there” Anyone old enough to remember Hilda Baker?

yes, but people don't use it like that

I hate this. I sat or I was sitting. Never, ever I was sat.

The BBC's younger reporters regularly make this error.

People say "I was laying in the bed" too. Drives me nuts.

When they say "I was laid in bed" I think that I don't want that much information :)

As a Scot "haich" is very wrong.

I think it’s more of a UK thing? Don’t really hear it here in Ireland but it drives me batty🤣. Along with I brang it, instead of I brought it!

Hate this too! I watch ‘A Place in the Sun’ and invariably the presenters phone the estate agents and say “I’m sat here with Bob and Ted” or whatever. I always shout at the tv!

Is it? I thought I saw on here that is was correct in Scottish English but I'm obviously mistaken.