Words that you used to get wrong

Don't know if this is a regional thing but another one of my friends says he's instead of his. Like, they're not even he's kids or that pizza's he's

Eighthours wrote:My wife and I started watching Breaking Bad at the weekend, and she's proceeded to call it Breaking Back ever since.

Please register your opinion of the show in the Breaking Bad thread and correct the spelling mistake of ever in the above quote!

hamm sandwich wrote:Don't know if this is a regional thing but another one of my friends says he's instead of his. Like, they're not even he's kids or that pizza's he's

The regional thing that really pisses me off is how Geordies say "us" when they actually mean I or me. You're not the strawberry floating Borg, Geordies!

Gario wrote:
Eighthours wrote:My wife and I started watching Breaking Bad at the weekend, and she's proceeded to call it Breaking Back ever since.

Please register your opinion of the show in the Breaking Bad thread and correct the spelling mistake of ever in the above quote!

I'm not going anywhere near that thread until I've caught up!

But I can tell you here: IT'S strawberry floating INCREDIBLE. I'm up to the end of Season 2 Episode 5 and plan to absolutely hammer it at the weekend.

hamm sandwich wrote:Don't know if this is a regional thing but another one of my friends says he's instead of his. Like, they're not even he's kids or that pizza's he's

Depends where you are, I'm down south and get people using it.

PostRe: Words that you used to get wrong by **SEP** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 12:27 pm

Eighthours wrote:
hamm sandwich wrote:Don't know if this is a regional thing but another one of my friends says he's instead of his. Like, they're not even he's kids or that pizza's he's

The regional thing that really pisses me off is how Geordies say "us" when they actually mean I or me. You're not the strawberry floating Borg, Geordies!

I'm sure I read somewhere that it stems from our Anglo-Saxon roots, particularly early Norwegian and Danish.

Eighthours wrote:
hamm sandwich wrote:Don't know if this is a regional thing but another one of my friends says he's instead of his. Like, they're not even he's kids or that pizza's he's

The regional thing that really pisses me off is how Geordies say "us" when they actually mean I or me. You're not the strawberry floating Borg, Geordies!

I do that, but I'm from the North West. It's a bit like the majestic plural I suppose or the Rastafari "I and I". Probably too metaphysical for a simple southerner to understand.

PostRe: Words that you used to get wrong by **SEP** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 12:30 pm

Anyway, it's hardly limited to the North. "Give us a kiss", for example.

My American friend singled "us" out as the oddest thing to his Yankee ears when we first met. He genuinely thought I was living with a partner I never let out of the house when I asked him to "give us a ring."

PostRe: Words that you used to get wrong by **Rax** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 12:56 pm

Pretty much everyone uses us around here, such as "Give us a bit of that", Im just used to it at this stage, dont take any notice of it anymore.

Not things I do myself, but that annoy me:

The Bristol habit of adding an l to the end of words
"oh, that's a good ideal"
"just popping to Asdal"

And people who say excape. What the strawberry float.

BraithGwirod wrote:Not things I do myself, but that annoy me:

The Bristol habit of adding an l to the end of words
"oh, that's a good ideal"
"just popping to Asdal"

And people who say excape. What the strawberry float.

Alright me babber?

I had a friend at uni who read Kotaku a lot. When he talked about the site he pronounced it "Cockatoo" :lol:

When I was a kid I pronounced human as schuman

I have a mate called 'Dave', but I often call him 'Steve'.

I don't know why.

Moggy wrote:
BraithGwirod wrote:Not things I do myself, but that annoy me:

The Bristol habit of adding an l to the end of words
"oh, that's a good ideal"
"just popping to Asdal"

And people who say excape. What the strawberry float.

Alright me babber?

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! As a Bristolian, this gooseberry fool REALLY bugs me. :lol:

Octoroc wrote:I have a mate called 'Dave', but I often call him 'Steve'.

I don't know why.

I knew a guy called Richard. I forgot his name once and another mate prompted me by saying "Rhymes with pilchard". And that is how Pilchards are born.

Bunni wrote:I doubt these neddy kids up here have caribbean heritage.

I hate the whole "ax" thing. It's irritating.

OnlyShallow wrote:
Octoroc wrote:I have a mate called 'Dave', but I often call him 'Steve'.

I don't know why.

I knew a guy called Richard. I forgot his name once and another mate prompted me by saying "Rhymes with pilchard". And that is how Pilchards are born.

I've always put it down to some kind of mild dyslexia. Somehow the bit of my brain that remembers Steve Davis is causing interference patterns.

For a long time Dave thought I was doing it on purpose as some kind of shitty long running joke.

PostRe: Words that you used to get wrong by **D_C** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 1:51 pm

Epitome. Used to think it was eh-pi-tome.

I ALWAYS get Arkansas wrong, and read it as it looks.

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