Serious question, but do people really not understand the difference between the two words when typing it in a sentence or are they deliberately pretending to be illiterate in that sense?
It’s quite commonly spoken local dialect in the North East. I don’t think it’s either, I’m aware of the difference and for all I usually try and write correctly it might get slip in naturally, and I’m sure that applies to others.
Neither of them are peculiar to the NE or to this forum. I have to read a lot of people's writing and it is often difficult to work out what people are trying to say.
I get it both ways in real life. Mackem pals say I sound like a Geordie so get grief for that, Geordie pals give me grief for being broad Mackem. Folk from other places, if they say out, they say ‘can tell you’re not a Geordie’ so I’ll go with that. Amazing nowadays how many folk can spot the difference whereas it used to be ‘North East = Geordie’ to everyone south of York.
But you’re not writing phonetically though. To me it’s basic english words that everyone should know the difference between.
Aye, I agree in principle, but I think it kinda just happens naturally. I mean, first sentence of this post starts ‘aye’ instead of ‘yes’. When I’m sending things for work etc that’s always written in the correct Queens of course.
when i first joined the paras there were around 8 lads from the north east, southerners used to take the piss, especially we would say filum instead of film
Don't think there's anything wrong with using dialect words because they've got a specific meaning. Its when people confuse one word for another that I get confused. Got sent an email once by someone I vaguely knew. It was so badly written I literally couldn't work out what they were saying. I just ignored it. I hope it wasn't anything important.
I like the fact that folk from other parts of the country like the way we talk, especially the lassies. You do forget that folk often don’t have a clue what we are talking about anyway as we adapt words to suit ourselves. It’s like you can literally use any item you want for a pair of tits, and anyone in the NE will know you mean tits naturally. Southerners will be like ‘her what?’ Ha.
Aye I get that. I can decipher most things, my Granda was originally from Girvan and learning to understand him full of whiskey pretty much made everything else a doddle
I may say "could of" but when typing or writing it down its always "could have", doesn't make any sense otherwise
And that’s exactly the point. It really isn’t difficult to do. We all have accents. I don’t see people in the south typing Newcarsull just because that’s how they pronounce it. Or typing barth instead of bath. That’s why I think that anyone who types could of or would of does it because they actually don’t know the difference.
It would off been more correcter if you said 'them in a sentence' tbh. You pluralised it when you said 'two words' then used the singular ...
As a “grammar nazi” it annoys the hell out of me!! My typing is rubbish I admit. But the one @Evil Jimmy Krankie mentions along with a complete inability to know the difference between there, their and they’re or your and you’re!!
