to absolutely hate the how people are speaking English!

The modern trend is to not be referred to using a term that now commonly denotes a person who is employed by a supermarket - unless you work for a supermarket.

Same way people aren't referred to as clerks when they work in a shop, in admin or when they are providing governance support. The use of the term clerk has changed and therefore the language used to describe people we work with has changed.

I hate writing long winded shit out when there’s an acronym that every 8yo knows 🤷‍♀️

It gives the possibility of at least three entertaining games at work meetings though.

1. Find a like minded person, choose three phrases each and count their use by all other people than the players and see who won.

2. Trying to create a new one and getting others to pick it up. I was very proud of changing "C level execs" to "C name execs" in a meeting once when three people picked it up.

3. Banning a phrase with the agreement of a few likeminded people and if the players accidentally use it, they have a forfeit which is to use a pre-crafted silly phrase in the same meeting.

Also people who are perfectly capable of pronouncing 'th' thinking it's cool and laid back to say 'free', 'fousand', 'fose' etc. Even the BBC are at it. Lazy.

I've been hearing bloody parking lot a fair bit recently. Absolutely nothing wrong with a car park.

Is it missuse, or is it regional. Like posters have pointed out, pants is usual in the NW (I grew up in Liverpool). Going back to Seth in Emmerdale, he would drop the 'in' and say step foot. The poster would have to give an example. There's lots of things that posters are incredulous about, that to us, older, Northern folk, especially from mixed backgrounds, or in Liverpool, who have Irish/Norwegian/Italian/Lithuanian sayings mixed into our own, are usual.

YES.

Also, people who think “text” is the past participle.

”He text me on Tuesday” - as though the verb were “to tex” and the sound of the “t” replaces the “ed” - “he texed me on Tuesday”.

HE TEXTED ME ON TUESDAY.

As usual this thread will become a slanging match regional accents and variations.

language has always and will always evolve. You Tube and American T.V is the reason for the Americanisms.

None of that has anything to do with the modern trend of using the word co-worker instead of the word colleague. What a weird tangent to go off on.

I find it bizarre how flagshaggers cry about British culture being erased by Islam yet they don’t seem to understand that by far the biggest changes to British culture comes from Americanisation.

My current bugbear is the absence of the word “to” - apparently it’s not just my DC. Are we going to go Sainsburys? Am I going the gym? Honestly, it sets my teeth on edge.

I don't mind the use of the words in the OP so much, provided they're spoken correctly. What I dislike more is 'lazy' talk such as 'gonna', 'wanna', 'innit'. The evolution of language seems to be outpacing me too (I'm 62). The other day I said something to my 26yo DD and her response was "slay". She also says 'bare' instead of 'really' or 'very' ie, it was bare nice. I think if I live to be 90 it will be like living in a foreign country with the language.

As an aside, I notice everything is 'on' now. As a young person we used to say "what are you doing at the weekend" or "would you like to go in the morning". Now it's 'on the weekend' and 'on the morning'. I see it all the time on MN.

Again, it’s proofreading.

The term "influencer" makes me ill. I wish they'd all fuck off.

I could care less certainly isn't an example of one that makes more sense.

Pissed for annoyed makes just as much sense as pissed for drunk but as it already has a specific meaning of drunk it's really annoying when people use it here to mean annoyed.

It’s annoying when Microsoft Word etc defaults to American English, because the spell checker then insists that all my British spellings are errors.

Never understood the vehement towards Americanised English. I have a colleague who gets irrationally angry when students use it in essays but I honestly COULD care less 😉

Their English often makes far more sense than ours and we should accept that. Not all of it but certain words just do to me.

There are more SPAG errors in your post. You can’t blame it all on not proof-reading.

What's checking her spaghetti bolognese got to do with anything?

IHA!

(I Hate Acronyms!)

That's probably because too many of us have endured unnecessarily lengthy morning meetings where the 5th middle undermanager of the day has introduced the 9th totally inconsequential and needlessly awkward change to procedures since Tuesday afternoon and commenced a lecture about standing up and smiling on the telephone because everybody will be able to tell you're happy with your employer that way with 'Good morning, Colleagues'.

We are not in the staff room of the nearest ASDA, Richard. A simple 'Good morning' or, even better, a 'No, nothing to add' would suffice.

That's set foot. A perfectly reasonable and old phrase I suspect that poster has no objection to. It's the modern mis-use of it as step foot that is irritating.

But it’s haitch in Ireland?

Another one is using "yourself", "myself" and "I" incorrectly, Traitors' round tables full of 20-30 yos who can't speak properly sent shivers down my spine!

I found my people 😂

Get a grip woman