"Food shopping" and other bizarre phrases

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Anonymous wrote:Why do some people say "food shopping" instead of just grocery shopping? It sounds so simple-minded, like something a child would say. Major pet peeve. Any others?

They are from New England. They probably have supper and use bubblers too.

I am from New England...what do you mean by bubbler? I think what I call a bubbler is probably not what you're talking about.

A water fountain. A bubblah! (MA born and raised). How do you not know what a bubbler is if you're from New England?

We call it a drinking fountain or a water fountain (ME born and raised, lived in MA 5 years, never heard it called a bubblah).

Everyone in MA, RI and CT calls it a bubblah. But, you may not know that if you weren't in school when you lived in MA or had school-aged kids?

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Anonymous wrote:The bad one for me is when someone has a lot of leftovers from a meal and they say:

"Well, I am going to be eating "on" this all week long".

Shouldn't it be "from"?

No, that's regional too.

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He was just loving on her.

Ohkaaay . .. .

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This is a great site, btw.
Here's the bubbler breakdown:
http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_103.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This one bugs me: "on your period" instead of having your period. How can you be on it?

Riding the cotton pony, sister.

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You know what sounds childish and uneducated to me?

People who get annoyed by regional differences in dialect.

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Anonymous wrote:You know what sounds childish and uneducated to me?

People who get annoyed by regional differences in dialect.

Most of those people are small minded people who travel. Anyone who is bothered by accents or dialects probably never leaves there little corner of the worlds, which is ok too.

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Anonymous wrote:He was just loving on her.

Ohkaaay . .. .

Do you prefer "loving up" to "loving on"?

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Anonymous wrote:I say "The car needs washed." Which I know should have a verb somewhere in there, but yes, that's still the phrase that comes naturally to me. DH uses "up" instead of "away" in reference to cleaning. As in, "Larla, put up your toys when you are done playing." It's away. Larla, put your toys away.

All the others to me seem like regional dialect differences, and I'm sure this one probably is, too, but leaving out the "to be" before washed is like fingernails on a blackboard (chalkboard?) to me. How about trying "the car needs washing?"

The up versus away is still grammatically correct. The washed thing is not.

It is entirely correct regional speech.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3422

You'll hear it in the North Midland region, but it is nonstandard usage. So, no, not grammatically correct.

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/needs-washed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I say "The car needs washed." Which I know should have a verb somewhere in there, but yes, that's still the phrase that comes naturally to me. DH uses "up" instead of "away" in reference to cleaning. As in, "Larla, put up your toys when you are done playing." It's away. Larla, put your toys away.

All the others to me seem like regional dialect differences, and I'm sure this one probably is, too, but leaving out the "to be" before washed is like fingernails on a blackboard (chalkboard?) to me. How about trying "the car needs washing?"

The up versus away is still grammatically correct. The washed thing is not.

It is entirely correct regional speech.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3422

You'll hear it in the North Midland region, but it is nonstandard usage. So, no, not grammatically correct.

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/needs-washed

"Standard usage" and "grammatically correct" are not synonyms, and "nonstandard usage" and "grammatically correct" are not antonyms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I say "The car needs washed." Which I know should have a verb somewhere in there, but yes, that's still the phrase that comes naturally to me. DH uses "up" instead of "away" in reference to cleaning. As in, "Larla, put up your toys when you are done playing." It's away. Larla, put your toys away.

All the others to me seem like regional dialect differences, and I'm sure this one probably is, too, but leaving out the "to be" before washed is like fingernails on a blackboard (chalkboard?) to me. How about trying "the car needs washing?"

The up versus away is still grammatically correct. The washed thing is not.

It is entirely correct regional speech.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3422

You'll hear it in the North Midland region, but it is nonstandard usage. So, no, not grammatically correct.

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/needs-washed

"Standard usage" and "grammatically correct" are not synonyms, and "nonstandard usage" and "grammatically correct" are not antonyms.

Why are you arguing this? It is not grammatically correct, and it is not standard usage. Grammar Girl calls it "not normal." Maybe you like that better? It's dialect.

The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project has some interesting info on it, including a survey map of "Most baby likes cuddled."

http://microsyntax.sites.yale.edu/needs-washed

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Anonymous wrote:He made an A in History.

I hate that. He got an A in History.

we say he "got" an A in history. I don't think I ever heard he "made" an A in history. that's weird.

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I can't stand it when people say - and I hear this one ALL the time - "when I am 10 years old (or whatever age)." It is was. When I was.

Also, stop asking for people to give you advise. It is advice. You advise someone, you ask for advice or for someone to advise you, but when you say, any advice? don't say, any advise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do some people say "food shopping" instead of just grocery shopping? It sounds so simple-minded, like something a child would say. Major pet peeve. Any others?

Really? This is what you think about? What a snob!

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Anonymous wrote:He made an A in History.

I hate that. He got an A in History.

we say he "got" an A in history. I don't think I ever heard he "made" an A in history. that's weird.

Heard of the term "made the grade?" Same root.