No, not the obligatory joke about the Welsh.
I may be getting old, but why do some people go out of teir way to type 'use' 'yous' or even 'ewes' in messages as in 'How's yous?'
I understand that it's how some people speak, but why?
Are there other examples of dialect or vulgar speech that people find irritating or baffling?
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Bad grammar and lazy spelling in general I’m not a fan of - but my single pet hate is ‘lol’! It’s so overused - and 99.9% of the time you can guarantee that what they’d ‘lol‘d isn’t remotely funny - let alone laugh out loud funny! |
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"Bad grammar and lazy spelling in general I’m not a fan of - but my single pet hate is ‘lol’! It’s so overused - and 99.9% of the time you can guarantee that what they’d ‘lol‘d isn’t remotely funny - let alone laugh out loud funny! "
Lol, back on the day, stood for Little Old Lady.
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Gawgus.....hate it.
Along with did and day or any other form of text speak. In the 90s/early 00s shortened text was needed (still irritating though) now not so much. |
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"Wiv
Dis
Dat
K
Ova
Fort
Fink
Fanks. All grate on me. "
All the above, plus ov or of instead of have. I also cringe at lots of text speak and long messages with no punctuation at all... partly because it hurts my head to figure it out. |
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"Wiv
Dis
Dat
K
Ova
Fort
Fink
Fanks. All grate on me.
All the above, plus ov or of instead of have. I also cringe at lots of text speak and long messages with no punctuation at all... partly because it hurts my head to figure it out."
I forgot about ov . They all make me shudder. |
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"Lots of people in Liverpool say "yous" which I don't have a problem with but I still always find it a bit odd when they write it that way too. "
It's a very common thing amongst young Geordies as well - it's not listed in either Danny the Red's book about Pitmatic of Heslop 9as I remember so I think it must bne another example of a kind of northern alternative to Estuary english.
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