Pedants' Paradise

[amateur51]

It's a common variant in the North of England. If I were you I'd try to stop being so amnnoyed, because it's not going to go away.

I really enjoy these variations, I must say

[Flosshilde]

These errors are rife in Scotland. "I done", "I've went", "I've came". On a similar note, hung/hanged are increasingly misused these days.

Isn't this venturing into the vexed question of what's ungramatical & what's acceptable 'regional' variation or 'dialect'?

[Flosshilde]

Is that an aeroplane in your pants, or are you just pleased to fly with me?

[MrGongGong]

In last weekend's Financial Times magazine:

p.43: "Chocolate and coffee tart sung from the plate....."
p.53: "Who sung Britain's biggest-ever-selling football song?"

Please tell me I'm wrong to be worried about this.

You are wrong to be worried

feeling better now ?
There are many things to worry about , this isn't one of them IMV

These errors are rife in Scotland. "I done", "I've went", "I've came". On a similar note, hung/hanged are increasingly misused these days.

If we're going down the "tense" road, there's nothing more annoying than "I was sat", or "I'm stood here".

Somehow I expect it from Steph McGovern on BBC Breakfast, but surely not from the likes of Professor Brian Cox.

Lighten up old chap there are plenty of consecutives in Bach's chorales (or should that be Bachs' or even the cholrales of Bach ?)

It's a common variant in the North of England. If I were you I'd try to stop being so amnnoyed, because it's not going to go away.

[amateur51]

Is that an aeroplane in your pants, or are you just pleased to fly with me?

"No Miss, this fokker was a Messerschmidt!!"

Will the tuk-tuk get me?

[Flosshilde]

In last weekend's Financial Times magazine:

p.43: "Chocolate and coffee tart sung from the plate....."

Please tell me I'm wrong to be worried about this.

I'd be extremely worried if a pudding started singing.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I've heard in Yorkshire "I was stood standin' there"...

A Lancastrianism, too: one of the catch phrases of Hylda Baker (1914-78).

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

It's a common variant in the North of England. If I were you I'd try to stop being so amnnoyed, because it's not going to go away.

Please do not label Northerners as thick and grammatically ignorant. It's patronising. Mind you, I expected it.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Bach's chorales (or should that be Bachs'

No. (Unless you meant examples from two or more members of the Bach family, in which case there should probably be a definite article before "Bachs'".)

or even the cholrales of Bach ?)

Definitely not.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Please do not label Northerners as thick and grammatically ignorant. It's patronising. Mind you, I expected it. However, this

There, jean; now look what you've gone and done!

[amateur51]

A Lancastrianism, too: one of the catch phrases of Hylda Baker (1914-78).

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

There, jean; now look what you've gone and done!

Jean's own grammar appears to be excellent . But there's an element of "Let them eat cake" creeping in. And let's not forget that this is Pedants' Paradise.

[mangerton]

Isn't this venturing into the vexed question of what's ungramatical & what's acceptable 'regional' variation or 'dialect'?

It could be, but I don't think so. I just think it's wrong, although the increasing use of these forms may mean that it will soon become "dialect".

OTOH, whereas "I'm sat" is wrong too, I'd regard that as dialect. Is there perhaps a throwback to the French construction here - "Je suis assis(e)"?

[MrGongGong]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCgicEWD1Nc&feature=relmfu

[Serial_Apologist]

It could be, but I don't think so. I just think it's wrong, although the increasing use of these forms may mean that it will soon become "dialect".

OTOH, whereas "I'm sat" is wrong too, I'd regard that as dialect. Is there perhaps a throwback to the French construction here - "Je suis assis(e)"?

One of my personal bugbears is the use of "lay" for "lie". "Lay" can be lots of things besides the past tense of "lie", , but never conjugable into its present or future tense, as in, "I'll lay down and you can get me an aspirin". But this in my experience is a colloquialism right across the UK - as indeed, incidentally, is substituting "sat" for "sitting".