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  • Nairn5

    I've finally found evidence that I'm not a total moron. At least, ..ok, notsomuch. Anyway,

    I've always said "tret" instead of "treated" and was called out upon it in my twenties and totally blue-screened, realising that I had no idea why i said it that way.

    > Tret
    > (Northern England, Bristol, colloquial) simple past and past participle of treat, i.e. treated.

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/t…

    Fuck you, Rich.

    • My cousins would say ‘bet’ as the past tense of ‘beat’ — “I bet him up”
      Not sure where it came from
      Gnash
    • Ooh, i like that too! Why not?Nairn
    • Similarly, I've heard people use ‘et’ as the past tense of ‘eat’.Continuity
    • Yeah, I grew up in Northern England and although I've lived away from there for over 20 years, I still say 'tret' and 'et'Wolfboy
    • Here's a short play:
      "Aye lad, your mother tret me well... are you alright?"
      "No, I et some bad chicken"

      annnd scene.
      Wolfboy
    • Yeah RICH, SUCK IT!stoplying
    • like "he pleaded guilty" like nah it's "he PLED guilty"doesnotexist
    • Pled, is a word thoughGnash

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