Jumped or Jamp?

[corgiman]

i would say jumped but thats just me

[squidge]

I never heard jamp til i lived in Caithness but its in common use there.. My eldest lad says jamp all the time is it a dialect thing?

[golach]

Must be a dialect thing, its not even in the Dictionary of Scots words
http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/

[mccaugm]

I never heard jamp til i lived in Caithness but its in common use there.. My eldest lad says jamp all the time is it a dialect thing?

Same here, I am always correcting their grammar. They hate it but that is just tough. Is grammar ignored in school these days as well as spelling?

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[jsherris]

Golach, there's mention of it here, in the comments section....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest...research.shtml

[Tristan]

I never heard jamp until I moved to Caithness and even then it was only in the younger generation so I don't think it is a dialect thing but more of you young person's slang.
On a similar note does anyone else feel like pulling their hair out when they hear someone say "he learned me how to do that"?

[jsherris]

I never heard jamp until I moved to Caithness and even then it was only in the younger generation so I don't think it is a dialect thing but more of you young person's slang.
On a similar note does anyone else feel like pulling their hair out when they hear someone say "he learned me how to do that"?

Tristan,
I correct peoples grammar all the time, apart from slang, which I'm terribly guilty of myself!

My pet hate is when Nikki talks about Christee-uns... Oh, I ALWAYS correct her with , No, it's Chrischyuns!
Tsk!

[Moira]

I never heard jamp until I moved to Caithness and even then it was only in the younger generation so I don't think it is a dialect thing but more of you young person's slang.
On a similar note does anyone else feel like pulling their hair out when they hear someone say "he learned me how to do that"?

I would agree that it must be "dialect slang".

What's even worse, Tristan, is when you hear someone say "he teached me how to do that"

[veekay]

I thought it was just me. Another one that drives me mad is, an Americanism - he dove into the water. No he didn't he dived into it.
Or is it just me.

[Geo]

I never heard the "word" jamp until I moved to Caithness. My son picked it up at school and it's ingrained in him now.

[mccaugm]

I never heard jamp until I moved to Caithness and even then it was only in the younger generation so I don't think it is a dialect thing but more of you young person's slang.
On a similar note does anyone else feel like pulling their hair out when they hear someone say "he learned me how to do that"?

I HATE THAT....I was taught therefore I learned....a family member says it and I have found myself gritting my teeth...

[The Pepsi Challenge]

Good grammar? Good spelling? It all depends on who the audience is. Or who it is intended for.

[karia]

Ah semantics!

Last week I jumped into the river!

This week I thought 'I will jamp again'

Both times,..I got WET!

Karia

[Lolabelle]

I hate this new one that seems to have popped up in the last couple of years, originating with the African-Americans I think.
"He's Disrespectin me"
Ahhh, disrespect is not a verb!!!!!!!

[veekay]

I stand corrected 'dove ' is in the dictionary. It does say mostly US though and it is still 'dived' in my house!

Thanks Betty

[jsherris]

Haha... Proper English = definitely Jumped!

But dialect.... Jamp is used in North Wales, so maybe it's migrating across!

And Erli... psst... don't go buying a dictionary, you have the biggest one in the world at your fingertips right now!

Julie