to absolutely hate the how people are speaking English!

My latest pet peeve is 'shop' as an imperative. Shop our new range! I don't know where it came from but I'm suddenly seeing it everywhere online and it looks very wrong to me.

The Homocide Act 1957. Applies to England, Wales and Northern Ireland but not Scotland.

@persephonia , yes I've seen lots of Americans saying positive discrimination is normal in the UK. I believe employment laws make it difficult to remove people within certain protected.characteristics but I don't think women, people of colour etc are routinely appointed to jobs purely because of what's between their legs or their skin colour. happy to be corrected if I've missed it though.

Sorry if off-tangent.

No they don't. But it is sufficiently common that if you want to refer to sex, then you need to use male/female.

It's just as common in the private sector as the public sector I think.

It seems that adults who've said "pissed off", "got" and "holiday" all their lives, are suddenly saying "pissed", "gotten" and "vacation".

Who are these adults who say this? I don;t know any! Except for gotten, but a lot of people in Scotland have used that word as long as I can remember (in my 40s)

Agreed, I grew up in Lancs in the 90's and it was always pants or kecks. Pantaloons was used in English a long time ago derived from Italian pantolone so I contest the pants thing.

Agree with the rest of your list though!

I'm late to this party but I want to add " can I get (something)". I realise I'm an old fart but I hate, hate, hate this way to ask for something.

Culpable homicide is and always has been roughly, although not exactly, the Scots Law equivalent of English Law crime of manslaughter.

DH is from Manchester. He wears pants rather than trousers

yes - get a life

Gifting/gifted and overuse of myself are Mrs Bucket affectations. Trying too hard and failing

Homicide is an unlawful death. It covers manslaughter and murder and is used legally in the Uk

Some people here say pants instead of trousers. I think it’s a working class term. I’m not from here so I say trousers.

Agree 100%
And the way US political talking points are copied and pasted over here when often the traditional political fault lines are different, the political issues are different etc. I follow US politics, but increasingly some UK political commentators seem more embedded in American Political drama than UK politics and just carry over the same grievances.

E.g. "bathrooms used to be segregated by race" not in the UK we didn't. There was racism, but it was different. Also, we don't put baths in public toilets.
"DEI and affirmative action woke blah blah". The UK has EDI. Maybe that's bad too. But the laws on what you can do in terms of positive discrimination are completely different yet some people are angry at American things for happening in the UK when they aren't happening in the UK and aren't legal here

Not everyone follows the trend of self identifying. I think you will find it more in the public sector than the private.

I don't think it's a fait accompli- why does evolution equate to 'American English'? Personally, I don't see this with the young people I know.

I'm in the west. The only person I know who uses pants for knickers is from NI. Although I will accept that trousers is replacing pants.

Same. Also “It gets on my tits” - how did that even come about?

Not entirely sure of the origin, but I'm sick of hearing about people being on journeys that aren't, in fact, journeys.

Actually I quite like bathroom instead of toilet - it sounds genteel. I might be going to do a giant poo but it sounds like I’m going to touch up my lipstick.

‘Gotten’ was common in Middle English and was used in Britain until around the 18th century when it began to be shortened to ‘got’. However early settlers in America took the word ‘gotten’ as the past participle of ‘get’ where it has survived as part of modern American English. So in fact it is more ‘original’ or ‘correct’ than ‘got’ if you want to think like that. But it’s just language isn’t it…… and my DH is from Lancashire and has always called trousers ‘pants’……

What part of ireland is that? I do accept trousers is replacing pants in a lot of ireland but the only person I know who uses pants for knickers is from NI.

A pant, a tee, a knit, wearing something with a red lip - all give me the rage. And it’s never just a knit - it’s a chunky knit, it’s a quiet hero, it’s elevated and it’s effortless. My eyes and ears hurt.

But then again, eating tea (instead of drinking it and eating a meal) kills me too. I’m not British so this could be why 😆

We must not question the inevitable

The main expressions that I dislike are ‘boils my piss’ and ‘makes my teeth itch’. Phrases I have seen only on MN.