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Yes I've often said how sad it would be to lose our wonderful dialects. Not just the lovely and varied regional accents but the actual words with their Scandinavian, Saxon and other origins. Lets hope they never die out.

wilma, with the mum the same age as me, so you could technically be my daughter !! You young thing. Not that I'm old or anything. Genuinely. It's all in the mind.
I grew up with railway station and train station really irks. Spose that's a bit of an age giveaway, but I hate to hear it, whilst at the same time admitting it's more correct. Trains, not the railway, are "stationed" at a station. But I will go on using the original wording just as I can't say driver's licence which seems to have replaced driving licence. I think a lot of the gripes on that list, Wilma, are about transatlantic imports but sometimes they do have their origins in old English, and it is we who have changed things. I think I said somewhere else that I say " for free" as I quite like it, and occasionally use other phrases or words from the London area just because they appeal! I'm a bit selective about when I use them though !

Or even lose dialect.

When I taught in the East end of London I worked with a Swedish teacher who was fluent in English. She used to say
" But the children don't speak English. What are they saying??". Always made me chuckle.

Sad to loose dialect imo

Ah, but that is dialect not laziness! Annodomini

When I had a teaching job in Norfolk, I often heard the idiom: 'I got wrong off me mam'. And I'm sure they richly deserved it.

Yes it is, sadly

Off of has been commonly used in the States for as long as I can remember. Please tell me it's not becoming a popular phrase "back home."

Ok Here's another one
Petition I have been sent
"Demand Airbnb stop profiting off of stolen land now."
Profiting off? Profiting from surely!!

I agree with the petition but wish people could word things properly!

Grammar has gone for a burton - aaahhhh! Grrrrrr! But I get hopping mad with American writers e.g. "The cat glared at the dog, shot out the window and ran down the garden path". I would like to know where it got the gun and why it attacked a harmess window! Anyone else got similar literary gripes?

Oops, whitewave ! (Silly Hudl)

white save I think you may be guilty of discriminating against other forms of necklaces and/or light fittings!

so funny!
I say, keep all the grammatical mistakes. Otherwise we'll all end up speaking Textspeak, not just writing it.

Nan, will take that under advisement, Im too chicken to comment now after several erm, unfavourable comments!?

Don't let that happen,BB I

I think she has frightened me off

Thank you merlotgran.

I agree, nankate. I used to be a bit scared of Jings at first!

Jing on occasions you say things that I don't agree with, but I always look forward to your contributions as you stir things up a bit and often give me a good laugh. I laugh with you not at you. I think you would be a good companion on a night out with the girls.

When I was a child if you were going on a train you went to the station.

If you were catching a bus you went to the bus station (or bus stop)

Nobody said train station.

Pendants need a life

No good. I can't be doing with pedantry. I guess anno's right. I should get off/off of here.

On another thread recently, talking about girl guide camping, I actually said, "they borrowed some off the farmer"!!! I knew it was bad grammar but sometimes on here I find myself talking as you would to someone sitting opposite you. I do sometimes slip back into now frowned upon ways of talking. Is that really so bad? Do we really have to be minding our p's and q's all the time?

Maybe jings