you was and them things

[robert551069]

Bradley Walsh, the quizmaster, on The Chase programme, is an excellent game show host with a great sense of humour who really adds value to the programme and I like him very much, but I do wish that someone would ask him to say "you were" instead of "you was" and "those things" instead of "them things"
I know that this is common parlance in some parts of the South East of England, but it's a pity, (or am I being pedantic)

[albaqwerty]

Or should I have said Kelvinsay-d?

chuckles

[murraymints]

Albs... eye harve to go and hang meye warshing out now.... see you presently...

[albaqwerty]

gotta go too Murray xxx Laters ...

[murraymints]

toodlepip ! ♥♥

[robert551069]

If the Scottish plural of you is you'se, the American is you'all.
When I was evacuated with the school to Torquay in 1943, the people in my billet used to say "youm" for you and "where ya to?" for where are you?

[jno]

tenses can evolve, factor... I think sprang is slowly being replaced by sprung

[jno]

depending where you're from in the States, y'all is singlular. Plural is all y'all.

[THEMOTLEY1]

In 'Homes under the Hammer' the male presenter, Martin, annoys the hell out of me with his constant use of £185,000 QUIDS

[THEMOTLEY1]

Aren't italics wonderful?^^^^^

[NOX]

I like regional variations of speech, and since I'm from 'Norn Iron' myself frequently find I annoy people with mine.

[Tizzi24]

oj - Mark (the Beast) on The Chase is also of the wiv & free brigade! I do love Bradley though!

[China Doll]

Ha! I use both those expressions, I'm from south east london...

[boxtops]

Brummies use Youm too, prounced Yowm - as in "Yowm on the Wun Why system"

[ojread2]

it's youse, not you'se :)

Each area has it;s own colloquialisms

[sandyRoe]

Youse uns are great with this accent thing so youse are.

[zebo]

Alexander Armstrong annoys me on Pointless when he say "score 35 or less", it's a discrete quantity, hence it should be "score 35 or fewer". An illiterate screeching game show host I wouldn't annoy me so mush, but he has had an expensive education! Yes, I'm a pedant and proud of it, it's my dream to wander round with a big thick red marker pen correcting apostrophe's', I'm the reincarnation of, I think, Keith Waterhouse!

[zebo]

Typos!!!!!! Much not mush and ignore the I!

[chaptazbru]

What I can't stand is people saying 'should of' instead of 'should have' - happens a lot on here ......

[scowie]

actually zebo, "score 35 or less" is correct. A score is not a discrete quantity. It may not be possible to score a fraction of a point in this particular case but scores are considered to be continuous numbers. That is why you can have a high score or a low score. You can't use high and low for a discrete quantity (unless you use the word "count" in your sentence which would then effectively change a discrete quantity into a score, i.e. I collected fewer apples than Jim. My apple count was lower/less than Jim's).

You would only say fewer if you included the word "points" in the sentence, i.e. you either say "he scored less" or "he scored fewer points". It would be wrong to say "score 35 or fewer" without the word "points" in there.

[Mamyalynne]

But surely if the likes of the lovely Bradley Walsh spoke perfect RP and sounded like the BBC newsreaders of bygone days, his essential wit and soul would be wiped out.

I love local speech variations even if they are often grammatically incorrect.