Using the word "our"...
as in "our mam", "our steve", etc - regional dialect is no excuse to murder the English language.
(Chad, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:01, 7 replies)

One more reason why I like Chad.
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( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:03, closed)

I like
how he's using both this QOTW and the last one to vent all his prejudices about "the lower classes"
(Bazongaloid, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:07, closed)

hardly.
I have known people from all over the UK, including Liverpool, Leeds and had family from Salford in Manchester - none of them ever used that phrase.

It is the preserve of the common - in the same way that using "summink" instead of "something" is common. No-one I ever met who was halfway civilised never spoke like that - it's something reserved for those in training to appear on Jeremy Kyle.
(Chad, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 9:35, closed)

what you're describing as 'the English language'
is a regional dialect.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 21:00, closed)

I was wondering
surely languages evolve and change all the time. This includes variation in sentence construction and speech patterns?
(tweebianmonkey Should be known as Widget, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 21:55, closed)

But without it
Peter Kay would not be able have an entire generation relating to him using just one letter.

He might be common... but he's funny as fuck and probably earning more money than you are :)
( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 1:13, closed)

Is it wrong?
You'd say Pete's friend or his bike, so why not our (family's) mother.

Or is the point that Steve and Mam are common? As a Stephen PH I've always been told by my parents that Steve was common (although ironically the Stephen comes from Steven McQueen, apparently)
(cheesehead, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 7:37, closed)