to absolutely hate the how people are speaking English!

YANBU. I just leave their daft language up to them and continue speaking properly, slight eyebrow arch permitting!

This! We all call trousers, pants around these parts.

No, you carry on, as long as you attach a gif to each one!!

Often it’s not co-worker but coworker, which always makes me think of bovines

I hear you. My absolute pet peeves though are (A) the now near-dominance of “I/he/she was sat” vs “sitting”. As well as having to restrain myself when I hear it in person, I’ve seen and heard it more and more on the BBC and in broadsheets. Do they not have editors nowadays? (B) haitch vs aitch. When did that become so ubiquitous?

I don’t think that’s a new thing: I remember my grandad, born 125 years ago, referring to his car as “she”. Although I can’t say I like it.
And as for “ get” and “gotten”, I think those are root words, historically used in words such as forgotten and begotten, but their current usage is a fairly new phenomenon.
My personal hates are those corporate sounding words and phrases used to make the speaker feel slightly superior to their audience - like “ you can report back to myself “ .
The frequent use of “ yourself “ on Traitors recently annoyed me , as in “ I’m sorry, I voted for yourself, Jade”. What’s wrong with “me” or “ you”?

Yes I know. And I was pointing out the current, and extremely common, incorrect usage of colleague.

I simply thought it was a little ironic that the term colleague has been replaced with co-worker and that employee/assistant has been replaced with colleague.

That’s an unusual context for the word colleague and not the more general context that I was talking about, but I’m sure you know that. When people talk about their colleagues, they mean their own people at their own workplace. You know, the people they now refer to as co-workers.

Co-worker is way better than the ridiculous usage of colleague in shops. No, the person working in the shop is not my colleague. If you suggest I speak to a colleague I need to leave the shop and go to where I work. Colleague is not a synonym for worker/employee/shop assistant etc.

Shame about your post title.

I also hate Americanisms. One of the most annoying is “co-worker” - no one seems to say colleague any more.
The rise of influencers has a lot to answer for - my teenage daughter and her friends talk about “drug store” make up and “blush” - it’s blusher!! Also “a couple hours” - seems we’re missing out the word “of” now.

I like gherking.

Don't watch classic coronation street, there was a lot of 'I'll never step foot in your house/pub/shop' again. Or 'mark my words, he won't step foot in this house agen'. It's a very Northern saying.

Are they asking for birth control pills and you expect them to call them the pill? Or are they asking for birth control and want advice on which type to use? They were called birth control pills when they were introduced in the 60's and when I was a teen (in the 80's). Again that must be regional.
I agree that gotten has always been in use. As were pants, the go to. My Mum would also say trews. We don't use paving stones anymore, so sidewalk makes more sense. Elevator sounds better. Candy meant sugar, as in Candied peel, we took the word to the US and then we changed our word for Candy, to sweets, taken from sweet meats. If people want to change it back, they can do.

Yes there is.

For cook is a little unnerved! 😀

Adulting...

My DH puts his undercrackers on and then his pants, he’s a Lancashire lad.

I agree! I've said the same. Everything that should be plural i.e. jeans becomes 'a jean'.

The excessive use of 'a' followed by a singular noun that should be plural drives me mad!

Oh genteel! Phone for the fish knives, Norman.

I done and I seen are heard a good bit in Ireland now. Drives me batty!

Gifting. Usually seen on local Facebook pages "Is anyone gifting an...."

In other words,
"I'm on the scrounge for a freebie."

Culpable homicide is a Scottish legal term and Scotland is part of the UK

Historically "get" specifically meant to "To obtain possession of property, as the result of effort or (esp.) contrivance." in the UK. This wasnt historically ever the case in the US.

This is why it was in the past strange to say "can I get" in the UK, people probably didnt even know why but evolved from a time when it did very much always mean to get it yourself.

South-east.

I have begun to think that there are some people who literally have never heard the word “invitation”. I always think of a 1920s char lady when I hear the word