Riven - Oh how I loved those books. Sweet Valley Twins, Sweet Valley High. How on earth did my mum let me read that crap?

'so over' makes me cringe slightly.
'totally' is now universal but that makes me cringe whatever country I hear it in.

Maybe it started with 'Sweet valley High' dd1 used to watch that drivel. Its makes High School Musical looks like serious opera

Some things of course just don't make sense outside of their original context. In the UK for example cars do not have licence plates but registration numbers. This is because in the States the plate is what you buy when you get your licence, so it is literally a licence plate. You renew it every year, in the same way in the UK we get the tax done (and you have to return them when you move out of state). In the UK however the plate belongs to the car, and stays with it for the lifetime of the car. The only exception to this are personalised number plates, but I think you still have to register them for the car.

Athene! And there you were thinking I didn't get irony.....

My DD won't have it that it's possum
she insists it's parsum (as they say in Ice Age 2) - and won't have it any other way

OK have now read the latest messages and realised the thread has moved on somewhat
<slinks off>

Haven't read the whole thread but High school musical has a lot to answer for.
My 7 year old DD came home from school and announced she is "so over" her after school gym club and last week her friend wasn't at school because she was "sick" (she had tonsillitis as opposed to actually throwing up).
I'm fed up of the whole Americanisms thing period!

Riven, it is all in the 'e' definitely - I had a NZ client and she phoned me to say she was going to be late once - she was in Tisco at the chickout. Dead giveaway.

A seperate tent? Do you mean the Hofbrauhaus tent?

If so it isn't really just for the Aussies, though they do tend to take over there.

I did make a point of avoiding that tent, not so much because of the Aussies, but because it's so wild there. You're likely to have your clothes ripped off there, and may never see them again. Certainly in the pig pen section.

The 'originated by Lauren Child' thing at the beginning of Charlie and Lola makes me grind my teeth.

Surely that's not a real word ? 'Originally by Lauren Child' or 'Written by Lauren Child' would make more sense.

I also lose tooth enamel over...
Actioned
Tasked
A heads-up

<goes for a quiet lie down>