to absolutely hate the how people are speaking English!

I would like to see the reinstatement of the words 'embussed' (got on the bus) and 'debussed' (got off the bus). I came across them in some documents from a hundred years ago and I think they should be resurrected. We can re-evolve language and fight the vacation heads.

You don’t shoot people here, you stab them.

I can just hear the vocal fry…

So how are these answers landing with you @exse24Londoner ? And what learnings are you going to take from it?

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I'm late 30s and have used 'pants' for trousers my entire life, as do my family (who are from both Cumbria and Greater Manchester). I don't think this is a new term.

"Always been pants for trousers in the NW"

Yes dh's family all say pants.

It’s just you. I haven’t heard any of those phrases being used in real life and I work with a ton of people who have all ages

There's nothing wrong with a split infinitive.

Ill-gotten is an adjective like well-trodden.

Interesting, while you can’t have gotten dirty, you can have trodden in dog poo.

I try to tell myself not to be annoyed - it's just our natural dislike of change. It's the evolution of language (which you say you love). Changes originate in all sorts of places and with all the access to media we have nowadays, we maybe see more changes more quickly than we used to.

I know people mention American TV and media influencing us and it does of course- but I manage to watch and enjoy their films and programmes without speaking like a shit copy of them so I don't see why other people can't. "Reaching out" and "gifting" are extremely annoying as is the more and more common habit of asking where the "bathroom " is. It's a bloody toilet ! No one's going to faint if you say it.

Spelling is dying out everywhere. I read a TV review on the website of a national newspaper last night which referred to "an illusive stranger".

Edited to say that I know illusive is a word but it means something that isn't real rather than it just can't be pinned down (elusive). I might find out next week's episode of Industry that the illusive stranger was imaginary rather than someone who suddenly left the premises once the police were on the way. If so I shall feel very foolish.

Hate split infinitives as in to boldly go sadly every few minutes on mn as elsewhere. Plus invites instead of invitations
On the other hand love the words used in the North Midlands by older relatives eg naughty for stroppy, shirty
Miserable for sullen, unfriendly

@honeylulu the irony of Gotten being old English, that we should reclaim is killing me. Why you ask - well because somewhere in the past, it was replaced with something else and I bet if we had MN back then, this thread would be happening in reverse 🤭.

Another one. Don't know where this has come from, but why now are there "question marks" about something. No, there are questions. You hear it on the news all the time: "There are a lot of question marks about this...."

I remember when at school an essay being returned with the word 'nice' ringed round in red. My English teacher had scrawled across the bottom, also in red 'Nice should only ever be used when describing food' I really disliked my English teacher.

I think it's symptomatic of something more worrying - the blurring of British & USA culture or, more accurately, the absorption of the former into the latter, particularly online. My UK young adult children don't really distinguish between the two for social media, advertising, streaming, websites... They're not aware that some of the expressions they use aren't British English. It didn't use to bother me - language evolves, some new phrases are indeed 'neat', but ....language shapes the way we think about the world and with what's happening in the US at the moment I now find it worrying.

OH, Oh I've got another...

I literally..... as in 'I literally died when I heard this' or 'I literally pissed my pants laughing' - how often have you seen this on SM? Well obviously you didn't die because you're still alive & I very much doubt if you wet yourself. After 11 years of free education you don't know what 'literally' means!!!😂

as my teens would say, its addicting.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Every time I tell them the word is addictive,but they insist the goons on TT or wherever all say addicting so it is therefore correct.

You’ll have to pry my gifs out of my cold, dead hands babes 🥰🥰

Circling back on this, I can second this.

When at school in the 1970's we were banned from using the word 'nice'. Our teacher making us to use a more descriptive word. Afterall what does 'nice' mean? Usually used for something or someone rather 'vanilla'. Eg: 'we had a 'nice day' meaning it was OK, but nothing special.

Me too. If I hear about one more weight loss journey I’m going to chuck that effing radio in the bin (trash can for Gen Z).

Not in my part of Ireland. Here pants also means knickers and trousers are... trousers.

Especially if it’s teamed with a heel (what just the one -are they suggesting people hop?). They usually tell you what products give you a nice lip as well.