I have noticed with the passing of years that quite alot of people now say 'we was' instead of 'we were' and 'I wish I was....' instead of 'I wish I were....'
This is an example of how bad grammar has sneaked into our language and is normal now for some people.
I have just been reading through Trip Advisor and otherwise perfect posts are spoilt with this incorrect use of the verb 'to be.'
The other thing I have noticed is that the perpetrators tend to be from southern parts.
Why has this happened?
I think this happens all the time as dialects and languages are adapted. Specifically with internet / social networking sites there is also a paraphrasing of words to write with the least number of characters or people simply rush what they are writing.
You can't have been in London or the London parts of Essex in the last sixty years at least ! "We was" is an extremely common form, heard everywhere, and has been for a long time. The verb goes: "L was, you was, he was, we was, they was"
If I Google "alot" (in quotes for exact matches only) I get 277 million hits. Alot is a town in India and ALOT is the ticker symbol for a firm called Astro-Med, so it does have some valid uses. Most of the other hits on the first pages are sites that discuss the fact that "alot" does not mean "a lot". So it's hard to blame Google - they don't produce the content.
My grammar isn't perfect, but I still consider myself a well-spoken person.
At least I can string a sentence together without a plethora of expletives and double negatives - a talent that eludes vast numbers of our indigenous thick.