to absolutely hate the how people are speaking English!

I unfortunately work in an open plan office so overhear a lot of phone conversations and it’s always “reaching out” and “touching base”. It’s irritating af but short of losing my shit at my colleagues or policing what they say, I can’t do anything about it so I just roll my eyes and make sure I never use those phrases myself.

TBF Women tend to be the ones who influence language evolution the most. Most language trends start with young women and radiate out from there. Except for words originating from the army. An unpopular example would be vocal fry which started being used by young women but spread.

((My personal theory is that this adds evidence to the possibility women were the primary driver for the development of language in the first place. But who knows).

Agree with most of these (although gotten is old English so we should reclaim that one!)

I feel intensely annoyed by people "hating on" something. Until recently we would just say we hated something. Where the hell did "on" come from? It's totally unnecessary.

Also, as posted on another recent thread, the trend for not finishing words correctly with "ed" or "ly".
Mash potato.
Pack lunch.
He is bias.
Worse case scenario.
A chill morning.
She did amazing.

Or adding more letters to words which don't need them. I saw a reel recently where an American plastic surgeon was talking about a patient's forthcoming procedure "to increase her appealability". Honestly "appeal" is clear enough. Why make up a longer word that means the same? Aaaarrggghhh!

For me it's the stupid "cool" accent that youngsters use - for eg. if they wanted to say "ninety nine", they would actually say "nanty nan". Usually followed up with "Bro" or "innit" Pack it in! You were born in Birmingham not the Caribbean!

Also, the excessive use of the work LIKE

I hate the use of the word "super" as in "I used Bloggs toothpaste and now my teeth are super clean". What's happened to "very" or "really" ?

My child says 'trash can' instead of bin which baffles me..

Many years ago I worked with a lady from California who'd recently married a 'Brit'. She had endless fun asking me what we 'Brits' called things.

She was amazed that we had dustbins, waste paper baskets & the endless variety of 'bins' that we have-kitchen, bathroom, bedroom - all with separate functions because they were of different design but all trash cans in her view.

Her particular amusement was all the words we have for <what she would call closets> wardrobe, pantry, larder, cupboard, press (if in the North or of Irish heritage). I told her that in the UK closets tend to be lavatories eg: water closets. 😂

Gosh there are a lot of folks got out the wrong side of the bed this morning. OP thanks to your incoherent rambling this PP has got the hump (gotten pissed?).

I really hate your constant use of gifs, it's like nails tapping on a product to me.

Not in my region, where in Scotland do they say gotten?

And here in Norn Iron. My flame thrower is ready to go.

’Can I get’ has also been mentioned. It’s going to be busy🤣

I agree OP.

’Reaching out’ makes me want to reach out to retrieve a taser to use against them.

Pants for trousers is local to liverpool and had been for years / generations it’s threw me when i first heard it.

Most of the other ones are corporate jargon that annoy me but I hear daily. It’s creeping into more daily language and gives me the ick

The last one is as a result of the words 'man' and 'woman' becoming part of terminology to express gender identity - not only as a result of an opinion either way, but due to needing to be specific that a speaker is referring to a female.

I'm quite glad that the tweeness of saying 'gender' when sex is what is meant has gone. Yes, it was clearly irritating when asking somebody a male for sex and they'd go 'Oh, yes please!' as though they were the funniest person at a Jesters' Convention and nobody had ever thought of that one before, but, thankfully, that one seems to be fading away now and we can get back to having the sociological concept of gender, gender roles and identity as well as the scientific definition of sex without anybody blushing furiously or stumbling over the word Sex.

I find it rather expressive. What I loathe is using the mealy mouthed “ass” instead of a good honest Anglo Saxon arse.

Sometimes I do get mixed up on whether I should use loft or attic, lift or elevator. There may be a few more. That’s down to the books I read.

I don’t recall having someone say anything you’ve mentioned in real life.

Or the hymn that starts “Of the Father’s love begotten”. A Victorian translation. Gotten is old fashioned English and US English seems to be a mix of old English and German expressions

In to not "into".

Yes "Boils my piss", where has this horrible phrase popped up from? Never heard it IRL, first time I ever saw it was on MN, and I hate it. Rant over.

I think it's probably because my teens are into British rap music which currently is a celebration of British diversity and is definitely a reflection of life growing up in certain parts of London (the Artists I've heard DC play) and not a copy of American rap and in turn Americanisms. It includes the very British 'pop' sounds that is definitely not American in sound.

A dog ‘using the bathroom’ 🤣.

And I thought it was pretty much the ultimate in prudish twee when a neighbour said her dog had ‘gone to the toilet on the carpet’.

I don’t think it’s come from across the pond, has it? - but I absolutely hate ‘boils my piss’ and all variants thereof.

Language does evolve but we are seeing such an acceleration now and all influenced by social media crap.

I hate everything being iconic. And things being 'curated'.... Like choosing to wear a selection of jewellery...FFS 🙄

It's all social media influencer crap....it's like estate agent speak on steroids.

Omg someone my daughter watches does this and it really pisses me of.

Passed wind

But the cat loves his ill-gotten gains?

Do you all just spend your time listening to influencers i haven't heard anyone use any of these words either that or I'm so use to hearing certain words I haven't realised they are not english words 🤷‍♀️