Timeline for Is it right to say "phone was rang"?
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| Dec 19, 2018 at 15:23 | comment | added | Lambie | So, it would seem that UK English and others accepts to be sat, for to be seated (American English). In any event, a phone still rings now and rang yesterday, regardless. As you are English, you might now see that. | |
| Dec 19, 2018 at 15:20 | comment | added | Lambie | I listen to the BBC "day and night". That said, it is my feeling that "to be sat" is used in lieu of "to be seated". If you google "be sat" at site:.uk, there is quite a bit of it. Check out this official site: The impact on passengers with reduced mobility, some of whom may have paid to be sat together with a carer when the airline would have sat them together for free.caa.co.uk/Passengers/Before-you-fly/Making-a-booking/… | |
| Dec 19, 2018 at 15:04 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @Lambie bad linking, but I assure you that some BBC reporters and British journalists use that construction. Halt! perhaps I’m fighting a losing battle, given that this usage is now so widespread that the BBC and newspapers such as The Guardian implicitly appear to endorse it as well. | |
| Dec 19, 2018 at 14:55 | comment | added | Lambie | I read through the entirety of your link to the Oxford Online dictionary and it says it says the usage is British regional and or Australian, New Zealand etc. I did not see anything about BBC reporters in it. In American English, it is simply regional or Afro-American. The two books are by a young lady who does not seem to be formally educated and the second book seems to have an Afro-American narrator. | |
| Dec 19, 2018 at 9:32 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 19, 2018 at 9:17 | comment | added | WS2 | But not unheard of for someone to say "He keeps ringing my phone (to see if I answer/to annoy me/to see if I am alright etc)." or "He rang my phone three times yesterday". | |
| Dec 19, 2018 at 8:49 | history | answered | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 4.0 |