Do you recognized this place?

Itchycoo Park brings back a LOT of memories from 1967 7th Grade (Fall semester) Art Class where I met my future on-off HS girlfriend. I was 12, she was 11; we still keep in touch.


The Gotch

United STEAKS of America The Gotch

A friend sent this.

We had a very old cemetery on our place close to Bend Texas.
My parents would always visit the cemetery before we went home from feeding or checking on the cows.
They would stay still after dark.
Some of the grave stones were statues.
I was terrified of vampires and I was only a wee child not even in first grade.
My dad would shine a flashlight in the cemetery and pick up glowing eyes from critters and say they were vampires.
The kids had to ride in the back of the old 1950 GMC pickup through the woods and back to town.
I was really happy we got out on the blacktop because I thought we could outrun the vampires that were lurking in the woods.
I know what pure terror feels like.
Now days I think it was funny but I would never do that to a small child but times are different.

The Gotch

Watching several cooking shows on YouTube I've noticed people saying grinded instead of ground meat.
I can see this with someone not familiar with the English language but people born in the US should honestly know better.
When I hear grinded it's like nails on a chalk board to me.
Grinding grind grinder ground.
See that wasn't so difficult was it?

One of the most common misuses in the English language, that I hear almost daily on the TV (unless I just don't turn it on!), is when people say they seen something, instead of saw something! Occasionally I see it in text, but it's mostly when people are speaking.

@pepperhead212 maybe there are a lot of people originally from Newfoundland around your area. The dialects here have some different grammars due to isolation for some hundreds of years. Very common for people here to say "I seen something..". In the dialect these forms are actually correct.

It's used after a helping verb.
I have seen.
Have you seen.
As opposed to I saw that.
If you listen to music lyrics they are seldom written in proper English.
Like in the Rolling Stones song satisfaction.
I can't get no satisfaction.
It should be I can't get any satisfaction.
But that would ruin the song, but it bugs the hell out of me to hear it.
@bower
It has nothing to do with Newfoundland.
I seen is common here as well among other strange uses of the English language.
I don't got any.
I ain't got none.
I done done it.

There's a term they use for that.........literary licence (took me a minute or so to remember the term!). This is why music often is done with improper grammar, but that doesn't bother me - it's when professionals use horrible grammar, where you would think they should know how to speak.