Am split on them Gilberts.
I like them but they would look better on someone else.
Seeing as this is absolutely everywhere now, does anybody know where it came from? Always figured it was Northern (or Scottish), just because it sounds ‘better’ in Northern (or Scottish), but it can’t be. Where did the first group of people decide that this was where we’re going?
Can’t even blame the current Tory government.
I am absolutely fumming about this
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I have no idea what you’re talking about. People have had split or divided opinions forever. I’m confused.
It’s this new thing of kids (and some adults) replacing I’m with am. It’s weird when people who didn’t grow up with text messaging, and who went to school, do it. Nothing about divided opinions, so you shouldn’t’f thought that.
Ok, am sure this is just my bad grammar.
It’s like a written version of pronunciation, I’m guessing where it comes from, like you said it’s a very northern thing! I would write ‘I’m cold’ but say it like ‘am cold’. I use the phrase ‘me mam’ which is a classic one from the north east, I know it’s wrong, but it’s amusing and I think language should be adapted etc and it’s creative to see aspects of dialect in writing.
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no different to people writing innit or cannae
“Me mam” is great, and as you say it’s regional. Like maw or ma for here, mom for the Midlands and whatever else everywhere.
Am sure is how just about everybody says it anyway, but maybe it’s because am is a word that autocorrect doesn’t change people are just too lazy to tap it and change it? Should’f is how we pronounce that too, but it looks so bad written down. Maybe the next generation will grow up dismissing I’m and have in favour of the lazy way. Another thing to add to the list of how absolutely fucked things are about to become.
Yes it is. People know that that’s slang.
it’s the same in writing form just that it’s new and annoying not old and more established.
Weird that I replied because I thought you replied saying “no it’s not” all angry like, which you didn’t haha
Innit and cannae are in the dictionary.
Can we all at least agree that using “should of” when you meant “should have” is not and never will be okay?
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Yes, yes we can.
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More likely to be mam than mom.
“I telt mi mam”.
Horrible.
yeah Mom is not right for most of Midlands
Literally the first Google result for ‘mom midlands’.
tl:dr? “OUP looked at short stories written by children across the country and found that ‘Mom’ was the top word used more in the West Midlands than any other area.”
Yeah think you’re right about autocorrect shaping language in certain ways! Super interesting one. Think I may have mentioned this on here before but there’s a funny one I’ve heard in Sunderland for years, in that we shorten words like ‘window’ to pronounce it like ‘winda’, so the word ‘mirror’ gets pronounced by some as ‘mirrow’ as people must assume that pronouncing it like ‘mirra’ (the correct pronunciation) is actually a shortening of a word when it isn’t. So in trying to pronounce words correctly without their local dialect, they actually produce a new word.
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