Referring to oneself as "us" instead of "me"
 

Can someone please explain where this comes from and what the point is? :shrug:

I go with 'lack of education'. Scotty says it a lot and he also claims 4x4 is 12 (last show). So, why would he be able to tell the difference between a singular or plural object pronoun?

It's not lack of education you cheeky ****, :nono:

I think it's a northern thing, I do it too

This. It's just differences in dialect.

I think u will find Scotty say *is* not us. Im a Geordie and I would say is not us, something like *give is a crisp* not *give us a crisp* Vicky P say is as well but whenever someone is quoting her in an interview they say *us* which really annoys me for some reason lol

It's a northern thing. :laugh:

Geordie people say that, watch geordie shore you will hear them say us(speaking about themselves) a lot.

He found love on the Northern line.

It is a northern thing , I'm a northerner and say ' us '

Haven't noticed it much lately, but common use up North.

Yeah just dialect really, we say "ye" here instead of you plural :laugh:

Yep it's an accent thing, it does annoy us though :hehe:

I think they mean Stephanie, she says "us", but yes I'm a geordie too and say "is" and get annoyed when we get quoted as "us"

Its common in the North East. Newcastle Sunderland Middlesbrough.

dialect

http://www.careyblyton.com/media/tv/...o/dalek256.jpg

It is lack of education. It's not even a lazy typo like writing their (belonging to others) and there (a place somewhere else)

I am originally from up North and easily one of my personal pet hates is the use of us to mean me. "Give it to us". Who the **** is us? Me and you? Then I already have it. You mean: you and someone else? There's no one else around for it to be "us". You mean " me", asin yourself, then why not say me. Me has exactly the same amount of letters as " us " so no abbreviation required. "Give it to me". Simple me. No " us" needed.

Even people who don't have English as a second language don't say this. Parents who say it to their children are appalling.

its very common to say "give us a break" which can mean 1 or many .... :smug:

Ill take that over Gemma,she kills the Essex accent, she sounds so uneducated imo

Oneself.

Thanks Lady Grantham but it's a slang word in the North East even used by people with O Level woodwork.

Guilty of using 'is'

As are most people I know.

Also northern :p

I am Canadian and I must admit that don't understand a lot of the dialogue and slang, especially the cockney stuff...but I do recognize sanctimonious bullsh!t when I hear it.

Go pat yourself on the back for being linguistically superior but you need some lessons on humility.

:joker::joker: Love it!

Well I am glad its use is becoming stigmatized. We all make mistakes with language, but this is us business is an epidemic in several northern cities and just makes the speakers seem lazy, selfish or stupid. It's confusing to non locals, ignorant and just plain irritating.

When people in Mongolia can use "me" correctly and North East Englanders can't it's time for change. It's akin to Stephanie not being able to pin point home town Liverpool on a map.:nono::sad::yuk::cloud::facepalm::rant:


It needs to stop.

Not people trying to infer those with a regional dialect are unintelligent :/