Do you say brought or bought when talking about something you have bought

Slinky

jackieb wrote: »

But i'm up north. It's acceptable here! http://bnc.bl.uk/saraWeb.php?qy=outwith&mysubmit=Go

Oh I know that and I don't want to stop you using it! But round here nobody knows what he's talking about! No idea why he's started using the word.....

jackieb

Slinky wrote: »

Oh I know that and I don't want to stop you using it! But round here nobody knows what he's talking about! No idea why he's started using the word.....

I honestly never realised it wasn't used down south. It's used on the news and in the papers here. It doesn't even sound like it would be unique to us up here. It sounds normal to me. :cool:

Torry_Quine

jackieb wrote: »

I honestly never realised it wasn't used down south. It's used on the news and in the papers here. It doesn't even sound like it would be unique to us up here. It sounds normal to me. :cool:

I agree here. I prefer outwith as to me outside can just mean outdoors. We have to understand sassenachs so why shouldn't they have to understand us.;)

Sally_A

Isn't our language BRILLIANT!!! Have been pondering this today.

I go
I've gone
I've been
I went
I am going
I was going

My Polish relative who came over to learn the language told me there were 19 possible tenses (I never knew that).

She now knows better grammatical english than me!

jackieb

Torry_Quine wrote: »

I agree here. I prefer outwith as to me outside can just mean outdoors. We have to understand sassenachs so why shouldn't they have to understand us.;)

It's been used for a long time.

Just a few of many!

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-j1AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=aVkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3928,4037847&dq=outwith&hl=en

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=v_U9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=C0kMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2066,3398372&dq=outwith&hl=en

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=a4RAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qZsMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1487,5358662&dq=outwith&hl=en

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QyhBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hqgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1854,5669922&dq=outwith&hl=en

scheming_gypsy

Led


I was led on the bed. No you wasn't you big 'tard, you lay on the bed.

adamantine

Teenie_D wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl:I live just a few miles away from 'the broch' and rarely understand what they are saying (and I've lived here all my life but parents aren't locals, not sure if that makes a difference), when I was at college one of the girls said she was getting the pinters in, she meant the painters! Oh and she was going tenting for her holidays I mean wth!!!! :eek: :rotfl:

Bad grammer and bad spelling really bugs me!

ohh we are practically neighbours!:rotfl: im in the 'heed and i struggle to understand brochers! i dont know what tenting is though!

but jimmy buchan and the BBC subtitle writers have certainly helped show us up for our bad grammar and language lol

onlyroz

Some inconsistencies can be dangerous. E.g. how should a train driver interpret this instruction:

"Wait while the light is red"

In some parts of the country "while" is equivalent to "until", and so the train driver would sit there on a green light waiting for a red light. In other parts of the country, "while" means "for a duration" and so the train driver would sit there for the duration of the light being red.

cat04

I'm the one who mentioned the pronunciation of Renault, and it seems I've been misled lol. The only people I've ever heard say Renult were the ex and his father, every single other person has pronounced it Reno. I'm from Leeds and have lived in Lincoln for 13 years and always heard it as Reno. Just assumed everyone else pronounced it that way, but I stand correctly. (Also, my comment was made tongue in cheek and not meant to be pretentious (sp?)

The mum/mam/mom thing - I know several people who say mom and they are all from Dudley or Wolverhampton. The only person I remember hearing say mam was Will Quack Quack

onlyroz

Mam is a north-west thing, I think.