A lot of black people say it. It always makes me laugh.

yeah, i was gonna say that

my 12yr old stepson and his mates say 'im goin park'

when they should be saying im going to the park

its bloody annoyin innit bred..?

I think people in Leicestershire speak like that too   -   "I'm going park"  "I'm going bed", - leaving out "to the"  or "to".

Lancashire people say I'm going down t'park. North Yorkshire people would leave out any reference to the word the. That leaves us with Bolton....,,, "I 'ad fer ter go ter park!"

Ooo-er!  The Bolton one sounds a bit tricky.

Brizzle...I think you need a lie down 

 

Funny you should say that Rawky.......... 

The word 'Axe', meaning ask, can be found in Old English texts.

i.e. Chaucer - "A man that hath trespased to a lord, and comth for to axe mercy..."

 

I believe African Americans picked it up from the Olde English spoken by slave owners etc. and it came back here with Caribbean immigrants.

 

Maybe they are laughing at us for our 'modern' pronunciation? 

I find wiv instead of with really irritating and everyone says it nowadays, it drives me potty.

I've noticed a lot of people saying that where I live (East Endish)

I hate seeing it written - usually on people's Facebook... loads of others, but that and 'ov' instead of 'of' really annoys me too. Yes, that might well be how you pronounce it, but it's not written that way! You save yourself one (or in the 'ov' case, none!) letter, and you've made yourself look illiterate, well done

 

*grump*

I hate it, i hate all of it really. I ASK and will continue to ASK. Cant stand street talk, whenever miss gyps comes out with 'aint' it makes my blood boil, i refuse to answer her or talk untill she corrects herself. Aint is a terrible word, and i aint joking!

What about when people call it TescoS when its just Tesco? 

 

 

 

ROFLing at this thread.      I have heard L.A. 'street gangsta' kids saying 'AKS,' and the kids over here (especially around Sarf London,) picked it up.  Although it's usually pronounced ARKS.

 

ALSO hate people who says TESCOS Rawky AND instead of saying 'I'm going to Asda; they say I'm going to AZDUZ!  ARGH!  Also throw my hands up in despair at  people who say 'I shouldn't OF done that,' instead of 'I shouldn't HAVE done that!'  And people who use textspeak and 'teenage chav' slang in messages and on forums.  "I wish U cud ave cum 2 da partee.'  *shudder*  It just screams GCSE failure.

 

And don't get me STARTED on people who spell stupidly bloody easy words incorrectly...  ("I don't want too.")

Mr Blizz always says Scalectrix, instead of Scalextric!!!  

They've been reading their Chaucer, innit!! 

LOL Bliz xxx

You axed for it! - http://www.grammarphobia.com/b...you-axed-for-it.html

I think it's 'lazy' for Tesco's Supermarket

Thanks Bliz xxx

Probably but you would never say I am going down to asdas you would say asda

Thanks Blizzie.     This forum is very educational.  

People who end everyone sentence with an upward inflection and make them sound like a question.... it drives me...

Oh yes Baz.    Me too!  Unfortunately there is a lot of it about.

That's drives me mad too, Baz.

I do that It may be a Top Right thing?

I say Azdah, but thats definitely my accent

Some people do

oh god, that grates right on my last nerve I have a friend with a tendency to do it, I just have to say "You're doing it again" and they know what I mean and stop

 it is so annoying, isn't it.... glad it's not just me

Why can't people just talk properly. It is not that hard you know

 

One does despair, honestly 

 

 

Z.

Chaucer  

 

That man made O level English literature a nightmare for me.

I do try my best too.  Unfortunately sometimes my regional dialect gets in the way.  But when I hear myself doing it, I always apologise with 'English today good not'.

Good Evening Cinds ... been hurtling towards the earth with a big sheet for safety lately?

 

 

Z.

ah dinnah man, it's weeyad lyke

Indeed ! It was the people who started saying "ask" who messed it all up, they should of/have/'ave been nipped in the bud. Asdas, Tes-cohs, Lew-is-sus, the Corp, are all quite OK. If people use upward inflection against you the correct response is, "you don't sound too sure!"

Hey Zaph, hope all is well and give Rufus a pat from me.

 

I was booked in to do my next jump last Friday, unfortunately the winds were not being kind and so no jumps were made at all.  I just have to wait for a better day.  

 

We were down at the drop zone all day Good Friday, it was bizarrely lovely weather there, but 2 miles towards the coast at Peterlee, the weather was shocking.  Anyway, an experienced jumper got in to trouble and ended up landing in a nearby quarry and had to be air lifted out 

 

A week later he was still in hospital in a full body cast, but was more pee'd off because they cut him out of his brand new £4000 rig 

 

It was at that point I found out how much a rig costs, and no longer do I feel guilty about my shoe collection 

 Saz you are most fluent in the typed Geordie accent.