I am getting annoyed with journalists using N.A. words.

Barnsley's Official Website continually uses 'dove' instead of 'dived' and gotten has become endemic. (doh)

 

Speaking of journalists..

Iain Holloway says in the Sunday Mirror's Championship preview that we're 'punching above our weight', but he doesn't say anything like that for Blackpool or Plymouth.

 

"Them players!" I cringe every time I hear that.
Hear it all the time on 'Talk Sport'
"Them players aren't going to necessarily bring City success"
Also saying 'stadiums' instead 'of stadia'
Don't get me going on the misuse of the apostrophe s though!
chip's
dresse's from £5.
sale's
Banana's only £1 a half kilo
Massive sale in camera's

It goes on and on and on.......

 

It's only what's to be expected. It's the same every year.

 

What's wrong with stadiums?

Agree with the rest though although local dialect may account for the "them players". You know like Lancastrians say "for" instead of "to". Or of course like Barnsley folk say "9 while 5" instead of "9 to 5". There's a fine line between local dialect and incorrect English. Remember, languages don't evolve unless people play around with them.

Our workplace seems to be infected by quotation marks. One example of many is a sign in the car park which reads, "Cyclists" utilise the bike racks provided. As if the writer is questioning whether the cyclists are fit to call themselves so. That's another thing... in Oz folk refuse to use the word "use". They insists on utilising "utilise". It just sounds wrong. Chuffin utilise.

 

9 while 5

people at work get at me for saying this, never realised it was a local thing.

 

It's not being able to use the word "loose" properly that does my nut in

"I hope we don't loose tonight"

grrrrrrrrrrr

 

It's not that local

Very common in York and teesside

 

Must be a northern thing then

I thought folk were having me on when they first picked me up over 9 while 5 when I moved away from tarn. For eighteen years I'd been using it without realising there was anything unusual about it.

 

I believe that both "stadiums" and "stadia" are correct... In fact I would use the word "stadiums" too, but then again I'm not an English teacher so what do I know

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned "you're/your" or "should of" yet, it always makes me cringe a bit when I hear someone say it.

 

Aye that's another one Tomi

 

As far I am aware, stadia is the correct plural of stadium. Maybe the incorrect plural 'stadiums' has been misused so often that it has now become acceptable.

 

Their, they're, there

http://failblog.org/2009/07/24/educational-software-ad-fail/

 

Isn't that how language evolves?

Stadiums is perfectly acceptable and so it should be, its in the dictionary. Surely if you're going to get upset/annoyed by people using that word because it isnt the original word then you should be equally upset that we now use the word not.

 

Has "stadiums" ever been incorrect though?

In English at least. It's like cacti and cactuses. Both perfectly correct.

 

There is pronunciation errors that have crept in.

My sister went spare when children said HAITCH instead of AITCH. It used to be the Irish that mispronounced the letter H, now it seems to be half the population.