Can I get...

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archie

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Currently in a chippy during a New Year's Day walk and am amazed at how many people are ordering by saying 'Can I get...'.

I always assumed it was mainly the yoot who used this irritating way of asking for things but it seems it has spread to middle age people too.

What's wrong with 'Could I have...'?

Happy New Year everyone btw 🙂
 
archie said:
Currently in a chippy during a New Year's Day walk and am amazed at how many people are ordering by saying 'Can I get...'.

I always assumed it was mainly the yoot who used this irritating way of asking for things but it seems it has spread to middle age people too.

What's wrong with 'Could I have...'?

Happy New Year everyone btw 🙂
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Please may I have etc. 'Can I get' is just copy cat American chav speak, in my opinion.
 
its very a american phrase, which like many other things such as the upward inflection in conversation have become ubiquitous.
 
If we want to be grammar nazi's the correct question is: May I get...?

Where I absolutely draw the line is:

"Lemme do a...Turkey sub on Rye"
 
& why, even with BBC announcers now, have people lost the use of the letter T & replaced it with a letter F or V

Free - Three
Wiv - With
Fings - Things
Vis- This




boils my piss
 
Limechase said:
& why, even with BBC announcers now, have people lost the use of the letter T & replaced it with a letter F or V

Free - Three
Wiv - With
Fings - Things
Vis- This




boils my piss
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In certain areas of England it has been pronounced this way for a long, long time.

Regionality in the way we speak is fantastic, I think it is one of the great and unique parts of our country. The way people speak changes over time in tiny pockets of land and I much prefer this to people all speaking the same as if there are any prescribed infallible rules. Speaking with an f rather than th will be considered pretty traditional by now in certain areas. I don't know why "even the BBC" shouldn't reflect the natural linguistics of our country, all of it. Throw that elitism in the bin.
 
foggy said:
In certain areas of England it has been pronounced this way for a long, long time.

Regionality in the way we speak is fantastic, I think it is one of the great and unique parts of our country. The way people speak changes over time in tiny pockets of land and I much prefer this to people all speaking the same as if there are any prescribed infallible rules. Speaking with an f rather than th will be considered pretty traditional by now in certain areas. I don't know why "even the BBC" shouldn't reflect the natural linguistics of our country, all of it. Throw that elitism in the bin.
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It's not elitist it's speaking proper like what I do.... Ignoramus
 
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