Turned round and said

[Cockney Guy]

Why do so many people say "she turned around and said so I turned around and said" Surely they would wear two holes in the carpet ;) a phrase frequently heard on The Geremy Kyle show.
Does anyone know the origination?

[RJUKL]

His "guests" are precisely the people who would use that phrase along with "we was", "they done it", "I haven't got no whatever", "I should of done that" and "I didn't say nothing" to name but a few.

[boxtops]

and .. "then she went, like, so I went, like...."

[Cockney Guy]

RJUKL and boxtops: My thanks to you both for funny and interesing answers. The other thing I can't stand is people who cant spell Jeremy. (Ouch!) Ha ha. My teacher at school turned around and told me that spelling aint that important, innit?

Thanks again, its got me thinking of other examples.

[Quizmonster]

At a guess, it probably started out in the reporting of argumentative situations, as shown by the illustration in the question. In such situations, the two people concerned are making what they think are conclusive and telling points. When one does that, the natural reaction is often to turn your back on your opponent as if to say, "Put that in your pipe and smoke it! You've got no answer to that one, have you?"
Accordingly, when it becomes clear that a FURTHER response is necessary, one would, quite literally, have to "turn round" in order to make it.

[fredpuli47]

Yes, QM, it's never used for ordinary, amicable, reported conversation. We use 'and he goes [quote]' or 'I'm like ' [ e.g[What do you mean?] for that ! And I also defend , 'He goes/went....so I go/went...' and 'I'm like..and he's like.' as conveying more than the simple 'I said....and he replied' because the first is suggesting the emphatic nature of the utterances,and something of the atmosphere, and, in the second the speaker is suggesting a mood, often with actions or looks accompanying the narrative, to recreate the scene for the hearer.
It's notable that speakers who use these substitutes for 'said' do not do so exclusively. The same reported conversation may have them using 'said' as well as the other verbs and they do use 'said' at other times. 'Replied', however, is not part of their vocabulary, but, to be fair to them, it's not a big part of my own. Most people,I think, use 'said' when 'replied' could be used, in informal speech.

[Cockney Guy]

Thank you Quizmonster and fredpuli47 for two further interesting replies to my question

[joggerjayne]

When people say to me that someone "turned round and said ..."

I ask "Why? Were they facing the other way?"

Actually, that probably irritates the other person as much as their curious phraseology irritated me.

[fredpuli47]

But we still haven't discovered where and when it originated ! I first heard people from the eastern side of London, Stratford,West Ham, etc and adjacent parts {Barking, Romford, Ilford etc ) using it in the late 1960s but that may have been me new to working in those areas, rather than it having started just then.Anybody?

[Bert]

I was born and brought up in Warrington, lived in Oxford for three years (term-time), then Lancaster for two years. I never heard this expression till I moved to Peterborough, about 1975/76. Nor had I heard "while" used where more conventional speakers would use "till" or "until".

[rinkins]

I know someone who is always turning round and saying. I wish she would turn round and burger off LOL