And why has nobody asked Alisha to not say 'You Was'?

[FerrisBueller]

it's driving me bonkers.

Profiterole - she mustn't be able to hear me shouting at the tv either.

I've noticed that Bruno has picked up the habit now! He said it right after her last night. His English grammar was OKish until he spent a year sitting next to her.

Were Were Were Were Were!

You WERE fabulous.

I was on the BBC message board (before I discovered MN!) last year and the moderators had real problems trying to stop what they called duplicate threads about Alyesha's grammar. It was an embarrassing joke really and probably why they aren't doing a board this year.

It drives me mad too and if my dds start copying her I will be livid! I don't get why she still does it - surely somebody has pointed it out to her?

part of her regional accent innit

i agree with you all btw

And she called Felicity Kendal "babe" in week 1! She is twice her age fgs!

Nothing to do with regional accent - it's just sloppy speech. My DD's are constantly yelling at her on the TV and correcting everything she says.

ah but fernie it is in a way - if you went to where she grew up i bet all kids her age speak the same way.

I shout at the screen too!

I suspect the BBC like it because she is the voice of Youth, innit. It would defeat the object of having her on if she spoke like Joan Bakewell.
Personally I don't mind it, she's a talking head on a shiny floor show, not giving a Reith Lecture. I do wonder what would happen if any of the people who get so wound up about this ever listened to the pundits on Match of the Day.

Don't you mean "yuff"?

And yes, I dislike it on Match of the Day; the same way I dislike it when I hear elected officials (or well paid employees) from Glasgow City Council saying things like "I have went to...." . It's not "youth speak", it is just uneducated speak

It's not my age: I have always been irritated by poor, uneducated grammar. It comes from having an English teacher for a mother! :)

Poor ds doesn't stand a chance: not only was my mother an English teacher, his paternal grandmother was an old-school primary school head teacher

We are currently trying to "educate" him on the correct use of "what" versus "that" in the middle of a sentence. The poor lad is 10.

She's not Alisha or Alyesha - her name is ALESHA

Ha Mumi, I was just coming on to say the same thing!

You must've followed me in from Pedants' Corner