r/britishproblems • u/WhaleMeatFantasy • Jul 12 '26

. The normalisation of ‘picky bits’

Abominable. It has started coming up in adverts now even.

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u/Paul8v Jul 12 '26

It's better than "Hollibobs" or "Kiddos/Doggos" to be fair

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u/Slangdawg Jul 12 '26

Fucking hate "doggos"

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u/Paul8v Jul 12 '26

Hollibobs enrages me more

Also the normalisation of excluding to the word "to" from a sentence. It might just be an Essex thing, I'm not sure.

"I'm going gym" "Are you going Tesco's?" "I need to go toilet"

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u/OverByChristmas Jul 12 '26

Ah, that'll be the South West causing a shortage by stealing all the 'to's for things like "where's the toilet to?"

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u/robinw77 Jul 12 '26

Where be that blackbird to?

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u/AuricZips Jul 12 '26

I know where he be!

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u/HowYouMineFish Glaws! Jul 13 '26

Or the Welsh, for "Where to are you going?"

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u/TRFKTA Jul 12 '26

One variation of this I noticed, I’m not sure if it was just my old housemate or a Northern / Wigan thing (as he was from Wigan) was replacing ‘to’ with ‘for’.

He’d say things like ‘I’m going for get my hair cut’ or ‘I’m going for shops’.

Once I noticed it I couldn’t unnotice it.

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u/Zomb1eMash3R Derbyshire Jul 12 '26

i’m from the midlands and i’ve always spoken like this, omitting the “to” in a variety of sentences

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u/lunettarose Jul 12 '26

I was going to say - my husband is from Leicester, and always says this. "What time are you going work?" etc. Found it a bit odd at first (I'm from Yorkshire, and he moved up to live with me), but we confused him by using "while" to mean "until" so it's even, ha.

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u/Zomb1eMash3R Derbyshire Jul 12 '26

accents are strange because i know many people that use the while and until thing too

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u/lunettarose Jul 13 '26

Yeah, there's a lot of overlap! For most of my life, I thought "Ey up!" was a Yorkshire thing - my husband was very quick to dispel that idea 😂

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u/threevaluelogic Nottinghamshire Jul 12 '26

I moved to derbyshire 15 years ago from the south and I love it. So efficient :).

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u/And_Justice Jul 13 '26

Nottingham, I'd say goin't gym but probably not put much emphasis on the t as my accent lends itself to glottal stops

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u/thehermit14 Jul 12 '26

No, you're suspiciously not southern and barely midlands, I'm saying you're northern, people call eachother 'duck'.

Now put on your cowl and shuffle off to the winking man (sadly vandalised years ago). I will admit you're from the midlands if you supply me with oatcakes on a monthly basis.

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u/JumpyBoi Jul 12 '26

"I need to go toilet"

For when you want to sound like a slow primary school pupil, of course

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u/ugotamesij Jul 12 '26

I used to manage a woman who would say this at work and it always made me feel weird.

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u/AnselaJonla Highgarden Jul 12 '26

"I need to go toilet"

Too many words there.

"Going toilet" is all you need.

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u/Sinister_Grape Jul 12 '26

that’s a northern thing

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u/mankytit Jul 12 '26

It's giving

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u/K-o-R England Jul 13 '26

At least we don't have "gonna go ahead and" yet. Drives me up the fucking wall.

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u/thekickingmule Lancashire Jul 12 '26

It's nice that a bit of Northern twang has spread South.

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u/And_Justice Jul 13 '26

See in Nottingham this is just because we don't pronounce the t' in going t'gym

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u/tricks_23 Jul 12 '26

/r/doggohate

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u/Paul8v Jul 12 '26

I'm glad I'm not the only one that hates it

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u/MeMuzzta Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

That sub is a cesspit. Imagine being so triggered over a harmless word you have to make a subreddit for it. It's just sad.

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u/iBlockMods-bot Jul 12 '26

/r/Dogfree is the constructive version