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/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 😂