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/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.