grr grr grrr
people who get sitting and sat mixed up for example;

"so i was sat at the bus stop"
NO YOU WEREN'T!!! YOU WERE SITTING AT THE BUS STOP!!

"i were stood over there"
NO, YOU WERE STANDING!!

ok so this may just be around yorkshire but if i'm watching tv and someone says it, i turn it off and walk off in a huff. i can't help it. i even correct them out loud even though i know they can't hear me. i'm an english teacher and this constant abuse of our native tongue drives me crackers!!

oh, and that bird on some kind of crap-in-my-attic program who always says jew-lery instead of jewellery; surely if she's an expert she should be able to say it properly?!

oh actually there's more;
using amount instead of number eg
"the amount of people here today is high"
no, no, no, no, no, NO!

hmm... i think i'm done for now...
(PrincessTinkle is charlie brooker's secret wife, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 13:09, 6 replies)

here/hear
"...even though I know they can't here me. i'm an english teacher..."

That made me laugh. A LOT.
(woohoo, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 13:20, closed)

Ha ha ha!
/points and laughs.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 13:38, closed)

*joins in*

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 14:15, closed)

Sorry, but...
... shouldn't those sentences start with a capital letter?

Agree with what you say though.
(Neil_E_There didn't the Aussies used to be good at cricket?, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 15:55, closed)

oops! major fail@me LOLZ!!!!!!!!!!!
(PrincessTinkle is charlie brooker's secret wife, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 15:19, closed)

Well, my mum is so posh she drinks wine out of glasses, but originally she's from Morpeth.
and she gets wound up by this.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 13:34, closed)

It's not just "sitting and sat"
It seems to be any past participle/past simple.

"I were took to Leeds".

"Has all them buns been ate?"

"Has you rode your new bike?"

Note how I've combined this with the wrong person (was/were etc.) for extra lulz.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 13:38, closed)

A genuine question
Are English teachers still allowed to teach English these days? In other words, at some point in the curriculum will children attend a lesson where they're taught the difference between your and you're, less and fewer, who and whom, tenses, nouns, verbs, adverbs, the subjunctive mood etc.? Or is it all "all that's important is how well you express yourself, dear"?
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 13:42, closed)

Not really sure
but a few years ago, during a doomed attempt to learn Italian, I discovered that a number of my (apparently intelligent and educated) fellow students didn't know what "vowels" and "nouns" were, never mind "adjectives" and "adverbs".
(Mork, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 13:51, closed)

Can't call the kids "dear"
It implies all sorts of things, prompting parents to say
"Whatcha call my kids dear for? Are you a pado or sumfink like that one off of the telly? If I find out you are, I'm gonna slit your throat" etc.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 13:53, closed)

When people say "I was sat there"
I reply with "By whom?" thus turning the person from the subject into the object in one swift stroke.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 13:53, closed)

but they dont understand it...
(PrincessTinkle is charlie brooker's secret wife, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 15:18, closed)