you was and them things

[robert551069]

Bradley Walsh, the quizmaster, on The Chase programme, is an excellent game show host with a great sense of humour who really adds value to the programme and I like him very much, but I do wish that someone would ask him to say "you were" instead of "you was" and "those things" instead of "them things"
I know that this is common parlance in some parts of the South East of England, but it's a pity, (or am I being pedantic)

[Sir Alec]

No it is not an annoyance just for you. Many people mispronounce their words. It is very annoying, but not as annoying as pedants!

[excelsior-1]

you are not being pedantic (in my view)

i too am a stickler for correct grammar and pronunciation.

[ojread2]

If correct grammar and speech should be used anywhere it should be done by TV presenters

Jeff Brazier is cringe worthy - he is of the wiv and free brigade instead of with and three. So thoroughly annoys me

[sandyRoe]

Isn't it, 'We was'? As in, 'We was robbed...'

[Sipowicz]

Wus!

[sandyRoe]

Wus, of course. forgive my solecism.

[boxtops]

It's not only the SE of England, no different from the Brummie "we'm going"

[factor-fiction]

I agree with robert- certain phrases like that make me cringe, although I'm not sure why because we can still understand what's being said.
Similarly I cringe when Alan Shearer says "he seen", "he should of went" or "he's took the free kick", and wonder whether anyone at the BBC ever points these things out.

[boxtops]

One I find interesting is the Scottish plural of "you" - "Youse" - "what are youse doing?" - it makes sense even if not grammatically correct!

[ojread2]

youse never sounds right though lol

[albaqwerty]

It makes me cringe and I'm living in the middle of it. The other thing I can't stand is when the letter Jay is pronounced Jie (to rhyme with the letter I and not K)

I still like the idiosyncracies of the English language tho.

[sandyRoe]

Ruby Wax once cracked a joke that no man ever put his hand up a skirt looking for a Pd.D.
I suppose no old footballer is paraded in front of the television cameras because he's a stickler for the nuances of language.

[bibblebub]

English is a language which is continually evolving. Presumably you don't use Shakespearean language in your everyday speech; that's only 400 years old and yet is quite alien to how we speak today. The English language has never been stuck in a form that is prescribed by a text book.

[boxtops]

I know what you mean, alba - eye jye kye.....

Don't get us started on Haitch!

[murraymints]

or aksing....don't london women know how to ask !!!!..prevalent on Eastenders...

[albaqwerty]

Sex is what Morningsiders have their coal delivered in :-)

I'm reminded of
Latin is a language
As dead as dead can be
It killed the ancient Romans
And now it's killing me

(from school desk, circa 1978)

[factor-fiction]

I agree bibblebub that language evolves but the Alan Shearerisms I listed were more examples of using the wrong tense and it seems to me tenses don't evolve.

[murraymints]

how do you know about Morningside Albs..you an Edinburger too !!!

[albaqwerty]

Lol Murray no. It's Kelvinside in my neck of the woods :-)

[murraymints]

weeeeegie !!!!