FabSwingers.com forum: Americanisms

By *sGivesWood OP Woman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL

Panties. Can't stand that word, they are k ickers or pants. When did they start creeping into our English language? Which ones do you dislike and why?

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By *sGivesWood OP Woman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL

*knickers*

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By *AYENCouple
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

Pantyhose - wtf!

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By *sGivesWood OP Woman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL

"Pantyhose - wtf!"

Tights or hosiery ffs lol

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

Having been foreign and having my language hated on for no reason, I'm not bothered unless everyone understands each other.

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By *entakuruMan
over a year ago

Exeter

I lived in America until I was seven, every so often the odd one creeps into my spelling or sometimes pronunciation.

What really annoys me are some of the more recent things that are coming into parlance from American English that just don't scan nicely even if technically correct. Things like:

* Irregardless and Irrespectivly

* "I could give a damn" when actually, you couldn't.

* to do something "on accident"

I'll post up more as I think of them but these ones really grind my gears!

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By *anielpiercedMan
over a year ago

by the seaside

I think the only one that mildly annoys me is aluminium...it is not aloominnumm (not actual spelling but how it bloody sounds to me when they say it).

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

People saying sked-dual instead of shed-dual for schedule.

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

"have a nice day" to you folks too....

p.s i'm watching!!!!

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By *o_eye_deerMan
over a year ago

The South Near That London

" really grind my gears! "

That one

Stock instead of standard - mainly referring to car features

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By *rimson_RoseWoman
over a year ago

Tamworth

Intel. It's Int!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Panties. Can't stand that word, they are k ickers or pants. When did they start creeping into our English language? Which ones do you dislike and why? "
I hate panties too drives me nuts it's knickers

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By *ovingittwoCouple
over a year ago

Norwich

Mom

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By *sGivesWood OP Woman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL

Replacing ou with just o, eg favor

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By *ovingittwoCouple
over a year ago

Norwich

Everything being awesome (pronounced arrsum)

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By *itvclaireTV/TS
over a year ago

Birmingham

"I think the only one that mildly annoys me is aluminium...it is not aloominnumm (not actual spelling but how it bloody sounds to me when they say it).

Yes, I worked for a company. They were owned by an American aluminium company. So we heard that pronunciation a lot

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By *crumdiddlyumptiousMan
over a year ago

With the amount of American movies (films) made every year its not a surprise,

A huge amount of people around the world speak a version English as a second language and its usually American English

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Americanisms fuck meet of too , one that pisses me off the most is poop , not poo ,

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My children pronouncing English words in an American way makes me unfeasibly cross.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pants instead of trousers cmon

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

I blame growing up watching sesame street.

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By *nglishdoodMan
over a year ago

Morristown

An explanation for 'Aluminum.'

That's how it was spelled when it was first discovered. The world agreed to change it so it fit with its neighbours on the periodic table. America kept the original spelling.

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By *nglishdoodMan
over a year ago

Morristown

"Pants instead of trousers cmon"

Yet we call our shreddies 'underpants' which they don't. Interesting, eh?

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By *nglishdoodMan
over a year ago

Morristown

My daughter was born in the USA and is being raised in Mexico by her Mexican mother. She speaks American English with a latino accent.

I still love her though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

* "I could give a damn" when actually, you couldn't. "

I generally don’t mind americanisms.

But this one makes me hulk out.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

anyone mentioned fanny , dont like yanks either not the people the word!! lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bum bags Americans call them fanny packs.

There bum bags always have been and always will be

Mrscxxx

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By *entakuruMan
over a year ago

Exeter

* "I could give a damn" when actually, you couldn't.

I generally don’t mind americanisms.

But this one makes me hulk out. "

"I could care less"

Nnnnnngh

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I blame growing up watching sesame street."

I blame growing up watching 75% American garbage tv

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I blame growing up watching sesame street.

I blame growing up watching 75% American garbage tv "

I like what you did there! Americanising “rubbish”.

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By *uzukiNo1Woman
over a year ago

Rhyl

My grandson has picked up American names from god knows where, he says "dollars" for money, "cart" for a trolley....he asked me this afternoon if I had my cart coin...

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By *lik and PaulCouple
over a year ago

cahoots

Being called guys...one of us isn't

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By *oistknickersCouple
over a year ago

London

Normalcy is just unbearable it’s normality FFS!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I do find myself slipping in and out. It comes from working, communicating with a lot of septics....

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By *itvclaireTV/TS
over a year ago

Birmingham

"My grandson has picked up American names from god knows where, he says "dollars" for money"

That was a thing for a while, when I was at school. Annoyed the hell out of me then.

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By *oJo69ukCouple
over a year ago

LONDON

Gotten

And it's bloody well gotten into everything now. I've gotten so used to hearing it I've gotten over how upset I'd gotten about using it myself.

I blame YouTube.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Words misspelled with ER instead of RE, metre, centre etc....

And why do we get to choose any language for your keyboard or on a website drop down except English? English US is a language but so is English FFS!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"anyone mentioned fanny , dont like yanks either not the people the word!! lol"

Haha... I’m American and got schooled on what the fanny was earlier in the fab forums

Color, favor, neighbor, butt, mom, I got tons I’m blanking on

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By *arakiss12TV/TS
over a year ago

Bedford

"Panties. Can't stand that word, they are k ickers or pants. When did they start creeping into our English language? Which ones do you dislike and why? "

Correct me if I'm wrong but did Humphrey Bogart start the trend of Americanisms off , with the film Casablanca. Was that film the first mainstream film involving illicit meetings with the opposite sex.

Could it be all Humphreys fault?

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By *sGivesWood OP Woman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL

"Panties. Can't stand that word, they are k ickers or pants. When did they start creeping into our English language? Which ones do you dislike and why?

Could it be all Humphreys fault?

Absolutely

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My mum was American and I lived there a bit growing up so don't think twice about them (actually have quite a few!) But find the kids here now have loads from the television... my pet hate one is 'gotten'

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By *uminsiderMKMan
over a year ago

St Austell

I dislike pants instead of trousers, and hate pantyhose - also annoying is suspenders being braces, and garter belts being suspender belts (you don't need a belt to hold up a garter)...

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By *lixir of lifeMan
over a year ago

knob Creek

And how the hell do they pronounce Aluminium??

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By *uminsiderMKMan
over a year ago

St Austell

Quite funny is when you tell an American that you were given your first rubber when you started school, and that kids often have pencils with a rubber on the end...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I met an eccentric American who insisted on using the Queen's English for all his written work and also taught his children to abandon the Americanised spelling of everything.

Top man. Totally off his rocker though.

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By *sGivesWood OP Woman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL

"Quite funny is when you tell an American that you were given your first rubber when you started school, and that kids often have pencils with a rubber on the end...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Growing up on US TV shows I much prefer the word panties over knickers.

Knickers are cringe worthy to me.

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By *uminsiderMKMan
over a year ago

St Austell

"Quite funny is when you tell an American that you were given your first rubber when you started school, and that kids often have pencils with a rubber on the end...

And when they give you that bemused look, it's even funnier when you tell them the rubber's so you can correct your mistakes...

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By *ockey64Man
over a year ago

Gloucester

I hate Sem I circle. Transmission, it's a gearbox. And stick shift it's a bloody gearstick. I could go on and on !!

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By *entakuruMan
over a year ago

Exeter

"I hate Sem I circle. Transmission, it's a gearbox. And stick shift it's a bloody gearstick. I could go on and on !! "

Sorry. Technically the gearbox is part of the transmission (which literally stands for transmission of power to wheels from engine), it could of course be manual (stick shift if you're over the water, in which case what you call the gearstick they call the shifter) or automatic, but there are other types of transmission which are neither such as CVT (continuously variable transmission) etc.

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By *ezebelWoman
over a year ago

North of The Wall - youll need your vest

"Mom"

Drives me mad

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By *ovegames42Man
over a year ago

london

Getgo aahhhhh

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By *illen5Man
over a year ago

Bath

The letter z replacing our perfectly good s

Authorise, fantasise. Etc

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By *illen5Man
over a year ago

Bath

"Getgo aahhhhh"

Bloody hate it

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By *illen5Man
over a year ago

Bath

Drive thru

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By *sGivesWood OP Woman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL

"I hate Sem I circle. Transmission, it's a gearbox. And stick shift it's a bloody gearstick. I could go on and on !!

Trunk, it's a boot. Hood, it's a bonnet.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The only things that really bug me are 'on accident' and their refusal to pronounce the letter H in some words, mainly words that begin with it. They arent 'erbs', they're 'herbs', dammit.

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By *orthcoupleCouple
over a year ago

Newcastle

'Hey, I got hit on last night', meaning....... 'erm, some bloke tried to chat me up last night'

and.....

'Hey, I hooked up with a guy at a party last week', meaning...... 'Got d*unk and shagged some bloke at someone's house last week'

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By *ig Chris75Man
over a year ago

Sandbach

"Having been foreign and having my language hated on for no reason, I'm not bothered unless everyone understands each other. "

Absolutely spot on lovely lady...!

A mantra we should all live by.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't like panties or knickers,they cause havoc with my dangly bits

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Gotten! It's been said before but what the fuck??!!

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By *eddonistikMan
over a year ago

Manchester

"anyone mentioned fanny , dont like yanks either not the people the word!! lol"

We know the fanny is on the front side of a woman, I was confused when I first of Yasnks slapping women on the fanny in fairly public places.

Hate Gotten, Panties etc but I also dislike the the way many British people are losing the the ability to put a 'g' at the end of words like losing etc. In manchester it seems like lots can't pronunce the letters 'er'. Ladder becomes 'ladda.'

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By *ertnsarahCouple
over a year ago

West Bromwich

Z is pronounced zed, not zee! I worked in a cinema when World War Z was released & always made a point of calling it World War Zed.

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By *heeseandWineCouple
over a year ago

Reading and Southampton

"Being called guys...one of us isn't

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Yes it irritates us too!!

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By *eedsortingMan
over a year ago

Radley

Biggest irritation is when they just make words up. The two most recent ones I came across I may even have uttered "What the fuck" out loud.

For those interested the words are:

Ideate (to discuss ideas and thoughts)

Burglarize

I couldn't even write them down without thinking WTF! Yes, I know, there are more important things in the world to be concerned about....

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By *eedsortingMan
over a year ago

Radley

Oh, and "momentarily". Used all the time in the US when they mean "in a moment". Just ignorance I suppose but it does grate slightly when a word like that is used to describe something different just because it sounds sort of similar to what they mean to say. And in this particular case, no, it's not "evolution of the language". I hope not anyway...

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By *ustme6Man
over a year ago

tamworth

Ohhh gawd I am so guilty of this ...spent twenty years working in the good old USA and still find myself calling it a cell phone...or asking where the nearest gas station is..not to mention the aluminum issue. .or the erbs. .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

“Can I get a latte”

Please may I have a latte

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By *G CoupleCouple
over a year ago

Newton Stewart

I get irrationally annoyed when I hear someone in coffee shops/pubs or similar say, "Can I get...." when they mean "May I have..".

I'm pretty sure they don't really want to go and get whatever it is themselves.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I get irrationally annoyed when I hear someone in coffee shops/pubs or similar say, "Can I get...." when they mean "May I have..".

I'm pretty sure they don't really want to go and get whatever it is themselves.

This one really does my nut. It makes me want to give them a slap.

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By *irkydirkyMan
over a year ago

Stevenage

True.. How annoying the way they say “isn’t it” instead of the correct educated way “innit”

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Never try to "ponce" or "bum" a "fag" from an American - you'll get something quite different

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Trash ffs it’s rubbish

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

And of course, always remember to turn off your faucets before stepping on to the sidewalk to check under the hood of your auto before going on the highway, in case you need gas.

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By *adylydfordWoman
over a year ago

altinkum

"Everything being awesome (pronounced arrsum)"

Awesome! Like A hotdog?

Napkin for me... gets confusing especially when you are using linen ones!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When ever you watch an American programme and they say” hey- I got this” ....they really haven’t .......”dead”

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By *adylydfordWoman
over a year ago

altinkum

"Getgo aahhhhh"

One of my staff is a little simple and keeps using the word gecko as in a type of lizard instead of this word... thats double annoying!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The pronunciation of the herb..oregano. and they make it worse by dropping the h in herbs and say..urbs....arrgghgh

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By *irkydirkyMan
over a year ago

Stevenage

"The pronunciation of the herb..oregano. and they make it worse by dropping the h in herbs and say..urbs....arrgghgh"

True, they should get lesson on pronouncing “herb” from Yorkshire people..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When they refer to chocolate as candy

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By *rotic-TouchTV/TS
over a year ago

doncaster

I need closure

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By *arrapsMan
over a year ago

port talbot

Basil, they pronounce it ba zil, yet they pronounce the male name as basil.....

One thing that really pisses me off is when someone asks

“ can I get “ to a shop assistant.... I want to scream. “ it’s May I have “ you fricking moron

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Have we had, "restroom" yet?

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By *irkydirkyMan
over a year ago

Stevenage

How about when they call a vacuum cleaner a ‘hoover’.. do them fools not realise that hoover is a brand..... oh wait

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Coffee with cream!!....not PC to ask for a white coffee...

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By *irkydirkyMan
over a year ago

Stevenage

"Coffee with cream!!....not PC to ask for a white coffee..."

You do know a flat white is with milk?

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By *ountyladMan
over a year ago

chelmsford

I have just got back from Mexico. One lunch time I was standing in front of the Chef, he was going to cook me a Prawn in Chilli Spaghetti. He asked what I wanted the Spaghetti cooked in, I said Butter. Blank stare, he repeated the question, I said Butter. The American girl behind me in the queue said to the Chef....I think he means Budder. Oh right said the chef. I bloody hate Americans.

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By *atcoupleCouple
over a year ago

Suffolk - East Anglia

When people finish a sentence with "For me." Example, "Take a seat for me."

Ridiculous, why do we copy them?

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By *sGivesWood OP Woman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL

"Have we had, "restroom" yet? "

Powder room

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By *illyjohnyCouple
over a year ago

brighton

Pavement is for walking on not driving

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By *uminsiderMKMan
over a year ago

St Austell

One thing I can't ever get my head around is the mealtime practice of cutting up food, putting the knife down, and then transferring the fork from the other hand to eat...

....many years ago in an edge-of-town diner in Pensacola, Florida, I became aware that the waitresses were stood huddled together watching me eating - after about five minutes, the one who'd served me came over and asked "Excuse me, hun, but were you brought up to use a knife and fork like that?"...

....I couldn't resist, and proudly announced, "Of course, I'm British!"

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By *eedsortingMan
over a year ago

Radley

"When they refer to chocolate as candy

Well, to be fair, on the whole American chocolate doesn't really taste like chocolate so we could maybe forgive them for it?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I get irrationally annoyed when I hear someone in coffee shops/pubs or similar say, "Can I get...." when they mean "May I have..".

I'm pretty sure they don't really want to go and get whatever it is themselves.

Especially when it's followed by "to take out..."

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By *pertureTV/TS
over a year ago

New Ferry, wirral in stockings and sussies

love knickers hate p@nt13s

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By *entakuruMan
over a year ago

Exeter

"go ahead and... " when you're talking about doing something - "I'm gonna need you to go ahead and get your feet off the table"

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By *aughty50sCouple
over a year ago

Yorkshire - but we travel a lot

"Gotten! It's been said before but what the fuck??!! "

+1!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There are a few that seem to have crossed over into management speak, at my office, and I hate them!

I think the worst is "reach out".

" So the payment for client A is delayed. Someone needs to reach out to treasury and chase it".

Idiots! Why not just speak to them instead? What good is waving your arms at then going to do?

Bloody morons! Arghhh!

Ok. Rant over.

Oh wait, and math.

You do the math.

Just no.

It's maths. You don't study math, you study mathematics. Notice the s on the end there? Maths!

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By *atcoupleCouple
over a year ago

Suffolk - East Anglia

"There are a few that seem to have crossed over into management speak, at my office, and I hate them!

I think the worst is "reach out".

" So the payment for client A is delayed. Someone needs to reach out to treasury and chase it".

Idiots! Why not just speak to them instead? What good is waving your arms at then going to do?

Bloody morons! Arghhh!

Ok. Rant over.

Oh wait, and math.

You do the math.

Just no.

It's maths. You don't study math, you study mathematics. Notice the s on the end there? Maths!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Panties. Can't stand that word, they are k ickers or pants. When did they start creeping into our English language? Which ones do you dislike and why? "
im with you on the panty thing and ass instead of arse grrrrr

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By *plbnorfolkCouple
over a year ago

Norwich

One that always gets us is that they class themselves virgins when they get married but have been fucked 100s of times innthe arse before marriage.... weird that

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By *sGivesWood OP Woman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL

Freeway... Motorway

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Mom"

Ask anyone from the midlands... It's mom there.. Not an americanism

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I think the only one that mildly annoys me is aluminium...it is not aloominnumm (not actual spelling but how it bloody sounds to me when they say it).

Actually you're wrong, the original spelling was aluminum, it was changed to aluminium by others and the British version was used in American scientific circles until the original spelling became the norm in North America.

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By *irkydirkyMan
over a year ago

Stevenage

"I think the only one that mildly annoys me is aluminium...it is not aloominnumm (not actual spelling but how it bloody sounds to me when they say it).

There is so many other things posted here that people think are Americanisms that are really just words that are used by British people without even knowing it.. Funny that..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Few more that are really annoying-saying "ten after" instead of "ten past" etc when telling the time, using "hooked" and "locker room" in football instead of substituted and changing room and using "period" instead of "full stop " as in "It needs sorting out, period".......Almost as annoying as people that start every sentence with "So....."

Going for a lie down now.......

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Panties. Can't stand that word, they are k ickers or pants. When did they start creeping into our English language? Which ones do you dislike and why? im with you on the panty thing and ass instead of arse grrrrr"

Yh the word panties Makes me cringe a bit, as for arse/ass it depends what your talking about. obviously if your saying “nice ass” instead of “nice arse” then your probably a jackass

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

dont see the issue. Surely you just call things what you want to ie knickers or panties.

lived in the US for 5yrs and love the expressions used.

Us Brits can be quite up our own ass and whingey over minor things. If the meaning is clear I dont care how its said or what form of the langugage is used.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

""have a nice day" to you folks too....

p.s i'm watching!!!!

When challenged about the insincerity of hotel staff in the US compared to less polite British staff, an American once responded:

"I'd rather be told to have a nice day by someone who didn't mean it, that be told to bugger off by someone who did"

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over a year ago

"Mom

Ask anyone from the midlands... It's mom there.. Not an americanism"

"That's how they say it in the Midlands" isn't usually given as an example of correct language!

I live here but hate writing 'mom'

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over a year ago

I want to state that I love Americans except when they say rowt instead of route.

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