possibly this is just recency phenomenon in which case it's still just as annoying*

[cimorene]

Is it just me or is "was sat" erroneously occurring in non-British fanfic narration on the rise over time?

*that is to say, very annoying, but not as annoying as "whilst"

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[krait]

I haven't noticed this one! But I've mostly been reading in older fandoms, so perhaps it's a newer thing.

My particular pet peeve lately is the "needs [verb]ed" for "needs to be [verb]ed" regionalism. Whatever region it's from, can they please come and take it back? It's clunky and makes me stumble over it every single time.

[cimorene]

Hm, yeah, I definitely have the sense that it's dialect but I also don't know what dialect it comes from. But I haven't noticed a change in frequency.