Am I getting old and pedantic?

I like taking the piss on Gransnet too ?

Has anyone heard " The proof is in the pudding?" No it's not. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Must be one of the most misquoted phrases used these days.
And escalators have become esculators.
I'm getting pedantic too...

I thought 'yous' was Scousse. Probably both...

Scouse

Prolly both.

I like prolly too. It's kinda sweet.

thatbags. ?....

Yous - also from NI.
Had to object when a lovely NI student said to my class
'Are yous gonna bring us(singular) your books?'

According to my 8yr-old DDGS it's proberly. Stood his ground and argued his point when I corrected him by saying that if we pronounce words correctly we've a better chance of spelling/writing them correctly.
He decided he'd just write 'proberly' anyway and if folk don't like it they don't have to read it!!

I think most people usually just say probly when speaking conversationally. I do, anyway...

I hate the way a lot of English people say " I fell on the floor " when talking about falling outside. Sure
they fell on the ground? A floor is something you have inside. Drives me mad!

There are certain questions to which there is only ONE answer.
This is one.
Another is "Does my bum look big in this?"
If you still don't know what that ONE answer is, on your own head be it.

Goodness Bonnie how many English people, or any other nationality, do you meet who've fallen and described the event, so much that it drives you mad?

Maybe you work in a fracture clinic.

I thought that "yous" was a southern Ireland expression.

Prolly is.

As well as all the other places it's used.

In connected speech we use weak forms in non-stressed syllables. - not 'for' but 'fe', not 'of' but 'ev', not 'to' but 'te' (the sound of the vowel changes to the 'schwa'). If you don't use the weak form it sounds as if you are stressing the preposition (or article in the case of 'the and 'a' or 'an'). I want A cup OF tea. I'm going FOR A walk. If you teach English to foreign learners, you teach them to use these weak forms, as it sounds unnatural not to. I don't see a problem with 'try and', although its use does seem to be restricted to the present tense.

... and no one has said " He was sat in a chair" or " We were stood in a corner"
I think they are dreadful but then I come from West Lancashire if that is significant ( unless you prefer 'if that be significant'

Yes, I'm a pedant (and proud of it!). I'm trying to think of an example of apostrophe + s which I've read in articles and I think it is incorrect:

"It belonged to the family of his mother's".

Not a good example but the best I can do. The apostrophe + s is not necessary.

I hate the Americanism 'you guys'. it can apply to both sexes, I know - but I still hate it.

I will make a cup of tea for someone - not a cuppa tea.

And I was taught in school to say' different from' not' different to' or 'different than'.I understand all are now acceptable.

I've always been old and pedantic. From the age of eight or thereabouts.....

You're absolutely right Grandmama, because there is a double possessive in that sentence.

The Americanism that I find strangest is when they say 'I could care less' when in fact they mean (as we say) 'I couldn't care less'.

I don't understand why people say something is 'for free'. Why not just 'free' ?

Apart from the ubiquitous 'like' which has not gone away in our corner of Somerset. "I was like in the garden." I find 'th' pronounced as 'f' as in "I fink he's in the garden " is spreading. Often in deadly combination 'think' instead of "thing" as in "I heard somefink in the garden last night" I feel I am a bad person for noticing this.

I am very glad that i am not the only one like this, i have to really stop myself from correcting peoples grammar,
Yous is also a Geordie expression,
I also hate people saying "of" istead of have, and i cannot understand how anyone can mistake "defiantly" for "definitely"
Another thing people have started saying is "guy" instead of "man"another Americanism?

How about I was 'like' going to go out or It was 'like' raining so I didn't go out .Why? the need for 'like'.

The expression, 'any time soon'. I hear this frequently but I think it's weird. An example,' he won't be appearing any time soon' is this English or made up slang?