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.

[rowanwitch]

My sister can't pronounce her Rs, she was told it was cute when she was young so never made the effort to correct it....
My only problem tends to be a tendency to say 'ok then' when I should keep my gob firmly shut!

[THECORBYLOON]

VULCAN, "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."

That's a bit of a sweeping statement and it's false, at least as far as Scots dialects are concerned

https://scotslanguage.info/scots-learners-grammar-verbs/

3.2 Present participle

The present participle is formed by adding -in to the root e.g. stert, stertin.

If the root ends with a consonant after a single vowel, double the consonant e.g. ken, kennin; mak, makkin.

Verbs ending in -e drop the last vowel e.g. come, comin; ettle (try), ettlin, and verbs ending in -ie change the spelling e.g. cairrie, cairryin.

The only real irregular is the verb gae (go). Although gaein is used, the form gaun is just as popular.

A’m gaun hame.

The spoken contraction gaunae, often replaces gaun tae before a verb.

A’m gaunae mak the tea

(but A’m gaun tae the gemm if not followed by a verb).

The present participle is used more in Scots than in English. Again this could be a Gaelic influence.

A’m no needin ocht the noo (I don’t need anything just now)

She stairtit greetin (She started to cry)

A’m no wantin (I don’t want to)

A’m thinkin he’s no in.

As in English, the present participle is used to form nouns such as biggin (buiding) and flittin (house moving)."

[naomi24]

RH, where did you come from to have to learn English when you arrived here?

[jno]

dropping the G used to be a sign of bein' upper-class, don't you know. All the unused Gs at Eton used to be gthered up and distributed among the derservin' poor every month.

[lankeela]

One of my pet hates is 'year on year' - what does that even mean? Year after year surely.

[Redhelen72]

Hong Kong

[naomi24]

Did your parents and teachers not speak English?

[Redhelen72]

My mother had a broad Buchan accent, dad had an English accent, godparents had welsh accent and my amah was of course Chinese.
My brothers were fluent in Chinese and English but I picked up on all these different accent and made up my own language so had to be taught English when we returned to UK

[naomi24]

Ok. Thanks for explaining.

[JimF]

"Year after year surely."

Pink Floyd certainly thought so.

[piggynose]

17.52 ar i am
coyb

[piggynose]

A’m gaun hame. !!!!
A´m away hame !! well thats what my weegie ma would say!

[THECORBYLOON]

LANKEELA, "One of my pet hates is 'year on year' - what does that even mean? Year after year surely."

"Year after year" refers to something that has been happening for several or many year.

"Inflation has been increasing for year after year" means the rate of inflation has increased each year over the last X number of year.

"Inflation is X% year-on-year" is a comparison of inflation this year with that of the previous year.

[ToraToraTora]

lankeela: "One of my pet hates is 'year on year' - what does that even mean? Year after year surely. " - year on year has a specific arithmetical meaning usually used when figures are being used. EG "House prices have risen n% year on year since 2007".

[wiltsman]

One other thing, why is it that most people who have a tatttoo are unable to say the word 'tattoo'.

They almost always say 'ta'oo'.

[piggynose]

*tattoo

[William51]

Yes Dave, i know what you mean. Sadly our modern language is littered with such mistakes. Anything goes these days.