Why Have People Started Saying Headed Instead Of Heading?

[dave50]

Example, where are you heading? Surely not where are you headed? Which is what I am hearing more and more.

[bhg481]

and people have started saying "Good" to "How are you?" - used to be "Well".

[gingejbee]

For the same reason they say "for free" instead of "free"...or, "I'm good" instead of "I'm well"...or, "so" at the start of every utterance.
To annoy the rest of us!

[Zacs-Master]

So, I wonder where this thread is headed?

[zebo]

And when did we start to 'fill out' a form instead of 'fill in' which makes far more sense as we're putting information into the form!

[bhg481]

When I was young we used to catch a train at a railway station, nowadays people use a train station. Has it changed or is it just what I grew up with?

[Old_Geezer]

Only most Americans, and other ignorant English speakers, say "good" when they clearly mean "well". I blame the nation's education system. Oh, and a lack of parenting.

[Atheist]

There's an annoying trend towards using adjectives as nouns which has crept into the advertising industry.

"Find your Happy" is roughly one of them. Errrr; I can't think of any others, so perhaps they're not as all-pervasive as I thought. Phew; that's a relief.

[novalis]

The same applies to was sat, was stood instead of was sitting, was standing.

[wiltsman]

Why do people say 'should of' instead of 'should have'?

I'm afraid there are a few ABers that are guilty of this error.

[piggynose]

13.48, because some abers are a little thick!

[pastafreak]

Old_Geezer

Only most Americans, and other ignorant English speakers...

Thanks for that...

[barry1010]

'Gotten' gets my goat as does 'discusting'

[ClareTG0ld]

Language changes constantly. So long as it's understood what's meant, that's the most important thing. Sure, you can achieve that by trying to stick to rigid, immutable rules about what words mean or how they should be spelled, but English has never worked like that, and trying to enforce such rules in the long run has never worked.

That's not to say it isn't irritating when a "rule", or rather what you think ought to be a rule, gets broken. One that has annoyed me lately is the confusion of "reign" for "rein", in particular in phrases such as "free reign", "taking the reigns", etc. Because they sound the same as the correct ones, and because it's not even that wrong in terms of literal meaning, I suspect these versions could easily start to catch on more widely in future. Although, hopefully they don't!

Snobbishness about these things never helps, though -- and often turns out to be just as incorrect, if not more so, by trying to impose rules where none had ever existed.

[jno]

I'm not well, but I'm good. Hope that helps.

[jno]

by the way, do any other oldsters remember the word "affect"? It seems to be spelt "impact" these days.

[gness]

Oh come on, Pasta.
You know everything's always the fault of you Americans. ;-)

[pastafreak]

I accept it...kind of
But I reserve the right to rant and rave.
I might have a word with management...whoever they might be

[gness]

I think management are headed off for a break at the home for bewildered Eds and SpareEds, Pasta.

[pastafreak]

I thought they all lived there already...
Shouldn't make assumptions I guess.

[Prudie]

Gotten is a perfectly acceptable past tense of get, I use it often whereas discusting is just a plain error. I would just like to get through a day without hearing 'reach out to'. Even my daughter uses it arrrgh what is wrong with ask?