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.

[MissTerious2]

What really gets me is "you're joking
me" it's all wrong!! I'll stick with the old fashioned "you're joking" or "you're joking with me"

[ToraToraTora]

As AH says using different words for things is natural evolution of language and it can be annoying but what I cannot abide is when the word is not just mis pronounced it's pronounced as a different word. eg Nucular! aaaaarrrrrrgggghhhhh!

[MissTerious2]

Cerstificates! ;0))

[piggynose]

14.27 heading off

[Old_Geezer]

Maybe they're saying "should've", Wilts. But probably not.

[gness]

I think you're wrong, Piggy. :-)

[piggynose]

15.10 i dont think so, but if youre happy to say " headed off" thats fine by me. ; )

[piggynose]

anyway i´m heading off to bed now. lol

[gness]

Oh Piggy. I used headed because Pasta and I were bantering. Think about it. :-))

[rowanwitch]

Sometimes the variances are local, and form part of a specific regional dialect. If you like your English correct, proper, and exact please don't venture into the Black Country your head will explode. I am sure I read many moons ago that the Black Country dialect and pronunciation is far closer to Old English.

[anneasquith]

Never mind pasta, the nice girls like you whatever nationality you are. You’re more popular than the Scots on AB . Lol .

[pastafreak]

Anne...I almost choked on my chicken.
I think it's a 'thank you'... :)

[piggynose]

15.22 there's the written word and there's the spoken word,I'd like to think most people don't speak the sand as they write.
Btw i support a black country team, i used to be quite fluent in ' yam yam'. Lol

[piggynose]

*same
Ironic!!!

[Pete65]

I'm hearing "no worries" as a response to "thank you", more and more.
Did it originate in Australia?

[vulcan42]

The one that annoys me is leaving off the G at the end of a word. Goin, readin, walkin, etc, is just sloppy, nothing to do with dialect or anything else.

[piggynose]

awesome!! aaarrrrggghhh!!

[rowanwitch]

Are yo a Baggie then Piggynowse

[Redhelen72]

I have a slight speech impediment from having to learn English when we moved here, there are words I cannot say like specific, plain and Dracula!
I would hate anyone to think I was thick because I couldn’t say a few words

[JimF]

"My bad."
"Enjoy!"