Not gonna lie, twice I’ve missed my stop because I was too busy ranting online about them.

I commute on the London Underground and I’ve been seeing new ones like every day.

I refer you to earlier equally poor choices

bsky.app/profile/matt...

I mean it’s just all kinds of incorrect. Make is correct in PDE if 2PP, but then taketh is incorrect. But, let’s say it’s 2PS, then it should be Takest. If Taketh was intended (which is weird, but let’s give them TBOTD) make should be makes (3PS).

At this point I feel like someone should call Channel 4’s marketing department and give them a Middle English reader #channel4

*prescriptivists wanted shall

Though, it's not Channel 4ths fault. Apparently no one ever really followed the rules (though mostly it was using will where prescriptivists wanted will) not the cheeky shall here. From Fowler (1926: 525) section "shall & will". Such shade.

I agree. In fact, I think it would actually probably make more sense as third person, either single or plural, "Blessed be he/she/they that/who resist(s) the call home".

You are absolutely right! I should have clocked that too.

Should deconstructing this be an exercise in my History of the English Language: 1500-1800 tutorials. All signs point to Aye!

I actually find this interesting because it’s using borrowed prestige associated with grammatical choices from two different periods in the history of English.

Also, contextually shouldn’t it be “Blessed be they who/that resist the call home”???

I don’t think it’s wrong per se, I just think it’s spreading.

This is true, one American, one British, but there are also corpora of spoken English that have none or nearly none so I wouldn’t read much into it.

Here's a link to the data. Not the actual tokens but the counts and relative percentages

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pskyh...

Of note, "by purpose" was a common kiddie expression when I was growing up. So the "by accident" -- "on purpose" prescription was drilled in to us. Perhaps that's why my sociolinguistic sensor piques when I hear "on accident".