Ya mean ta tell me Brooklyn is in England?
Actually, written is a subset of verbal, which means “of words”. You perhaps meant “oral”.
I grit my teeth when someone says “center around” instead of “center on.”
Another one that gets to me is the use of objective case pronouns before a gerund instead of the possessive. Wrong: “Do you mind me playing the piano?” Correct: “Do you mind my playing the piano?” The same is true when using proper nouns: “Where you aware of John’s (not John) passing?” But which is correct for other nouns? “Did you hear the crowd’s roaring?” – or – “Did you hear the crowd roaring?”
“Y’all” is a convenience to distinguish between the singular you and the plural you. I don’t know how others talk without it. Does it annoy any of y’all?
I don’t know its origin, but many Southern usages are Elizabethan, Scottish, and Irish.
Well, I’m fixin’ to go fix breakfast…Do you want to eat or do you want to quibble. I refuse to serve “a mess of” anything, but I will be serving grits.
Well, not that Brooklyn. However, I have seen that pronunciation “blamed” on everyone from Polish or Serbian immigrants to Southern blacks, and I find it interesting that it occurred in Britain before any of the “other” people ever spoke English.