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... "I'm stood here" ........... when I say "I'm standing here"?

Why do you say "I was sat there" ........... when I say "I was sitting there"?

My way is right. Truly it is.

So why do you say it the wrong way?




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Why doesn't this place allow html in posts ...................

Older couple is watching TV.

He: I think I'll get some ice cream. Would you like some?
She: Yes, but I'd like some butterscotch sauce on it. Can you remember that?
He: Of course I can remember it.
She: Well, thinking about it, I'd also like some nuts on it. Can you remember that too?
He: Of course I can remember it.
She: And I'd like a sliced banana on it too. Are you sure you can remember all that?
He: Of course I can remember it!!!!

15 minutes later, He returns to the living room and hands She a plate of bacon and eggs.

She: Where's my toast???



Two older couples have just finished playing bridge. The women go off in to the kitchen.

Bob: "Hey Harry, you played really well today, and remembered every hand. I thought you were having memory problems."
Harry: "I was, but I found this really great memory course that has helped me a lot."
Bob: "Wow that's great, Harry. You know, I've been forgetting things too. What's the name of that course? I would like to look into it."
Harry: "Uh,...uh,...uh,........... let's see...... It's, uh, ....................... help me out here Bob, what's the name of that flower?"
Bob: "Flower?"
Harry: "Yeah, the one with the thorns."
Bob. "You mean a Rose, Harry?"
Harry: "Yeah that's it." (Harry turns around and yells in to kitchen) "Hey Rose, what's the name of that memory course?"

Your way IS right Janey...I know that because it is my way too ;)

And the good thing about those ones is ... you can tell them to your aging parent today ... and again next week ... and again the week after ...

Oh, well, Rose, you are such a prissy pedant, what would I expect? You probably don't watch Coronation Street. I do. Which is why I find myself saying "I was stood there ..." and wondering why I'm talking like that ...

It's called dialect Janey...which over here is varied.

Though your way is grammatically correct.

Deeply wounded now :(

Correct grammar, my way, too :-)

Are you presuming to tell an Aussie how to speak correctly, Janey? Well I talk proper like what you do:-))

Sue xx

It's funny, TW, some regional dialects in the UK are every bit as anti-grammatical as anything any inner city in the US has ever come up with -- and yet they manage not to come out sounding illiterate somehow. ;)

"I were", "we was", loads like that, that I hear on the tiny smidgen of actual Brit tv I'm allowed by BBC Canada these days ... things I'd never hear from grownups here!

Aargh, narrow-headed Australian crooks, as No.1 refers to you!

Or at least to the hucksters trying to buy our gold and and suchlike, every ten minutes on every news and rerun channel on the dial ...

For some reason -- isn't Crocodile Dundee a bit old now? -- Australians are the soupe du jour on commercials here these days!

JANEY SENT YOU A QUAINT SAYING ON PM

* using invisible ink says
Goodnight, Janey :-)

Joy, that was not a complete sentence.

- edit - oops, I was referring to your first words here! See, I wasn't ignoring you, I was just working bottom-up. ;)


Btw, everybody knows that if you're competing with a Canadian for a job teaching English overseas, the Canadian will win hands down. We have *no* accent, you see, and everybody can actually understand *us*!


Of all my clients in my former professional life -- Central American Spanish speakers, French-speaking West Africans, Creole-speaking Haitians, English speakers from all over south/southeast Asia (I communicated with clients in Eng, Fr and Sp as necessary) -- the one I simply could not understand a word spoken by, when she called me up on the telephone, was ............. the one from Liverpool.

Well, Dizzi, it's still "teakettle" here.

Although that's probably a euphemism for what you said. ;)

how would janey cope with our smoggy accent
its a bit like Geordie very north eastern English

she might need a translator lol

RUNS OFF TO LOOK UP
euphemism

Janey, I have to disagree with you about Canadians having no accent.

We just returned from a holiday in Europe where we met some "strong-sounding" Americans, who said they were Canadian. So to we Brits you all sound the same, and we expect none of you to be grammatical, whether you consider yourselves to be or not!!!

Similarly, in the UK, most dialects are fairly ungrammatical. It's just the way it is. Those of us who were brought up studying English language know to speak English like it woz rote!

I understand Liverpool :)) ( honour restored )

SHELLY
YOU AINT THE ONLY ONE