Am I getting old and pedantic?

Innit !!

Could anyone with a better knowledge of grammar tell me:
Is it correct to say "meet" or "meet with"?
Is it "talk to" or "talk with"?

My daughter in law is from Middlesborough and her and family say like at the end of every sentence,

Does anyone else want to shout at the TV every time someone means drawing (as in drawing a picture) and it comes out as drawring?
Amusing the way autocorrect tries so hard to stop you writing such aberrations.

I'm with you on 'try and' but I think we've lost that battle. It seems to appear as far back as the 16th C.

Oh yes - just remembered another idiot word use:

Some media types have described the first showing of a film as being "premiered".

When did that become a verb!

OK, I know this post is from Friday, so sorry about a late post, but.....

One of my pet hates is the BBC and no doubt other broadcast news readers using the phrase:

"two-time", or "three-time"

And, without the slightest trace of irony, there was a piece on BBC Breakfast this morning discussing the use and misuse of an apostrophe!!!!!!!!!

Do these people know nothing of plural and singular, to say nothing of 'train station' instead of railway station!!

Elrel, tissue rhymes with issue. Can't say I have heard anyone make a mess of that.

www.bbc.com/news/uk-39459831

Own up, which Bristol gran is it?

What about AKS instead of ask?

And TV presenters not pronouncing the T at the end of words or the G at the end of '...ing'?

Or how about the proliferation of rogue apostrophes on boards outside cafes for example?

But the corker is the 'street' (?) pronunciation among youth whereby '...er' at the end of a word become aaaagh, as in for example forevaaaaaagh (forever). And wait might become weet. Fascinating. And at the same time somehow sad.

My BIL has always altered wrongly placed apostrophes either by rubbing out on chalk boards or using his red pen on menus and leaflets. He was a teacher and English is not his first language

I feel the same BluebellGran. Has any one else noticed how many tv and radio presenters (including R4 - yes, I did say R4 ) who use incorrect indefinite articles eg "A amateur"!? It sounds awful - apart from being incorrect.

So ! Great reading these posts - I too am old and pedantic after many years of being young and pedantic.

Bonnie and Hollycat - you've both mentioned two of my pet hates, too! How can a floor be outside - and 'haitch' instead of 'aitch' although I have noticed that anyone with Welsh roots tends to do this. 'All right' will for ever be two words with me. I do have to be very careful with this wretched predictive text, though, as it loves apostrophes, have you noticed? I think my pet hate of all has to be 'me and my .......... ' instead of ' .............. and I' (insert as applicable: hubby, boy friend, mate, etc). I terrorise my grandchildren on this one!

One expression I hate is 'bored of' instead 'bored with' . So many young people say 'I am bored of this' and it really makes cross. Yes I am pedantic.

Marydoll, must admit I loved the piece on the Bristol apostrophiser - excellent!

Has anyone seen the item on BBC news this morning about the man who is going around Bristol, in the dead of night, fixing grammatical errors on shop signs? I love it!

American language doesn't seem to have plural spelling. For example 'the coat fit her well' rather than 'fitted'. They speak this was too. Drives me nuts!

I always understood we should say different from and not different to. On a slightly different tack - when and why did a railway station become a train station? Maybe this is a different thread.

It's when people pronounce the letter "H" as haitch instead of aitch that annoys me most.

I'll continue to write 'all right' and say 'different from' and 'bored with' in spite of the gradual change in language!

I read today that the Oxford Junior Dictionary no longer includes either bluebell or corker. How sad.

Loopy- yes, either baby or neonate!

Oops 'How do you pronounce 'tissue'?

Esspee- how so pronounce 'tissue'?

My current pet hate is people mispronouncing assume. Where does the mysterious "h" come from to make them lisp the word as "ashume". I would love to hear them try to say assumption using the same mispronunciation.

I was talking to an Irish friend who has just started to study Gaelic and he mentioned that Irish people say "yous" because the Irish language has a plural of "you." As for pedantry, I'm afraid my father was pedantic, I am pedantic and my children have inherited the same gift/burden....