Off the back of Footlongs post......

Other than the like thing I don't think I have too many. Although I have some really annoying sayings - do you know what I mean, to be fair/honest (when I'm not being fair/honest), I'm not being funny (when I am), are you serious/are you kidding me, and reply did you not/have you not? As a response - e.g, statement: "I haven't had any dinner today" me: "have you not?". I tend to pick things up from people and they stick. I say awesome far too much for my liking, as I started saying it as a joke and it stuck.

Footlong - my sister does the same thing, we always tease her for it when it's something really obvious!

Hurrah.

You know pencils?

Yes this exactly! Only the other day on the phone she did one when she was about to tell me a story about her children's Halloween events at school. Her: you know Halloween? me: No never heard of it, all these years it's totally passed me by, please tell me more! I think it's come from explaining more complicated things and now it's just habit! Very funny though!

I have some odd ones - all because I am a southerner with a northern husband

I have some odd ones - all because I am a southerner with a northern husband living near Sheffield so my phrases are a combination of the two

ha this is one of my principal reasons for taking a foreign husband, he has said:

- your always put your nose against any food I buy for dinner

- it felt like a smack in the teeth;

- it's raining *like dogs and cat*

and loads more, except it's usually just me that hears it so I'm laughing alone in the kitchen and he's looking at me like I'm weird.

I have a friend who is from the Czech republic and she keeps up amused with these sorts of things too. She has come out with webcob instead of cobweb, hedgecock instead of hedgehog and johnny long legs instead of daddy long legs. I never dare to correct her as her English is far better than my Czech!

We know French and German people who cannot comprehend that it is one sheep and lots of sheep. They have to plural it, so it a sheep, or sheeps. Thing is, we say it now too!!

Yeah. I can't fault my H when he married an English girl in a family where nobody can do more than order a pain au chocolat in French, and he has a job and lives his whole life in english!

Occasionally when he's really tried, or has been speaking french to his family on the phone, he'll randomly turn around and say something to me in french by mistake and I am lame and find it the cutest thing in the world - makes me melt.

awww this is really sweet!

My sister does this to us sometimes now, in German, if she forgets who she's speaking to! She lives over there with her bf, and they take it in turns having "English day" and "German day" at home, and both correct each other if they say something incorrect/unidiomatic. The weirdest thing is that if I'm talking to her on the phone, she speaks English with a German accent. We both have fairly neutral/non-specific southern-ish accents and adapt to whoever we're speaking to, so I'm mostly generic London now, but because most of the people she speaks English to on a daily basis are German, she ends up copying their accent! It's only on the phone that this happens though; when she's back here and especially around her friends, her Black Country twang comes back.

I think I do use "I was like" sometimes but hopefully not excessively. H always pulls me up for saying "Could you/would you" when what I really mean is "Please do it" (pass the salt, buy some milk, put the washing on) - he says "I could, but I won't" ? *sigh*

What is wrong with that?! Even after 11 years down south l still say those words that way.

Lately l have got into saying "is it" in random different circumstances. It's a bit of a London rude girl, l blame a friend off my course who did it all the time!

According to Mr Erin l use the phrase "at the end of the day! a lot but l disagree

I love the eeeeeeeeh thing -when l lived in Newcastle one of my friends used to do it at the sign of any smut or gossip!

Aww Clare! ♥

That's made me really smile

i hate hate hate the Portsmouth accent and I think I have managed to escape the most of it.

One of the things I do tend to say is 'behave yourself' when someone tells me something unbelievable.

One of my best friends works with teenagers so she always keeps me up to date on the lingo, it helps me decipher my neices Facebook statuses.

much to h's disgust I say basket rather than baarsket like a southerner should do. Ditto to grass, bath, glass etc. it's due to northern parents.

I don't think there is owt wrong with it, but sadly H does, and he has been known to correct me. He grew up in Wales, so presumably they pronounced them differently.

Mr Erin tries to correct me. It is not my fault he is from north London!