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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 fromGnash - 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
- My cousins would say ‘bet’ as the past tense of ‘beat’ — “I bet him up”