"cleverer"

[jd_1984]

I use this word in every day conversations.
I feel daft but I have just realised it isn't in the dictionary!!

[hc4361]

The dictionary knows bestest

[maggiebee]

Agree Blackadder about "Mother sat her baby in his high chair". However, what annoys me is when an interviewer says, for example, "Where were you when the accident happened?" and the response is "I was sat in my car."
Was he/she not "sitting"? Must read up on transitive/intransitive as I only have a very vague memory of this from school xxxxx years ago lol.

[BlackadderV]

Quite correct, Maggie. What you quote is wrong. I was sat there means that someone forcibly placed you into the seat.

[BlackadderV]

Same as, "I was stood there", meaning that someone had placed me in a standing position, as opposed to, "I was standing there".

The boy was standing in the corner

The teacher stood the boy in the corner

[stuey]

And remember, class; always place the emPHAsis on the CORrect sylLAble.