to absolutely hate the how people are speaking English!

I entirely agree with this sentiment though not the actual violence bit as we don't live in America and that shooting stuff is too American for me.

I'll stick to inaudible shouts of wanker inside my head instead. Much more civilised.

IT IS just the evolution of language though. You say it's not, but it really is. American culture affecting our language in the way Western culture has affected the language and behaviours of a great many countries. You will notice it is largely younger people adopting this language so it IS evolution and it is annoying because it makes you (us) feel left behind. It's ok that you find it annoying but YABU.

I'm from Cumbria and would always say pants to mean trousers, although my teenagers laugh at me! Your underpants are kecks or grundies!

Local gym now has a "Run Club" its a bloody Running club

Its not just you. The one that’s boiling my piss at the moment is ‘reset’ for good old fashioned tidying up.

Language evolves , I am sure your Victorian grandparents would recoil at some of your use of language. Sometimes it is not a new thing. Gift as a verb has been around about 400 years and has been consistently used in legal documents. It has got more popular since the 1990s

You do understand its entirely legal to shoot people who do this? Little known but accurate fact.

Yes and the 'Feds'.

I only realised it was regional when I went to University. How are underpants, under pants, unless you put pants on top?

Yes, we need to be careful what we’re complaining about. ‘Gotten’ would have been very familiar to people in the British Isles in the 17th C.

My particular gripe is over ‘upcoming’. What happened to ‘forthcoming’?

Those are English words thougn do you mean you hate non brittish words?

I am happy for language to evolve, just as long as English is not replaced by the version spoken in the United States. We are not the 51st state.

I'm afraid I have to agree with this. It's literally the most common thread topic on this site , more than parking, mother-in-law or marriage gripes. Oh and kids.

where do you stand on “get yer kecks on”? Now that the proper phrase in Lancs if you ask me.

I’m in the Northwest of England and it’s always been pants rather than trousers, even 30 years ago when I was in school.

I totally knoe what you mean. My teen dd has watched a fair bit of American tv follows a load of annoying YouTubers and she says things like candy, elevator interchangeably with sweets or lift.

I've noticed certain words creeping into British made TV, I suppose because lots of shows are made for both the UK and the US market now. I can't think of a specific example but do recall something the other week which annoyed me.

I mean I understand what is meant so it's not a big deal but I find it slightly unsettling, in the same way that I disliked the colour of the butter, eggs and use of creamer instead of milk when I went to America.

Hate the expression pissed!
I assume someone is drunk

I read the other day that Netflix had dropped a new season of something I was looking forward to watching so I was really disappointed - until it dawned on me this is a new way of saying they're now showing it. How odd! I understand language evolving, but to mean the complete opposite? No thanks.

I’ve always enjoyed regional accents and phrases. I’ve always been fascinated how words are used all round the country and love the history of words.

I must admit I tire of The American phrases. No I don’t hate Americans , I just hate the conversational way that children these days refer so easily to “trash” or “candy”, as an example .In my experience in schools, it’s very common. But that’s just TV and influence for you, no one thing or person really at fault. Where I’ve worked “reaching out “ and “feeding back “ are totally the buzz words and I guess it’s just a filtered down influence again.

American is taking over. I associate it with Trump.

'Invite' as a noun 😒

Secretly in our heads there are so many of us still thinking
WANKER
Whenever anyone British does this.

So they can be 'evolving language' if they want but the price of doing so is knowing you don't know which one of us is looking at you with a nice smile going 'wanker' inside our heads.

If you do it, you now will look around and wonder which one of us is inwardly calling you a wanker.

’Life hack’ - that does hack me off.

In a separate note, I wish people criticising the obvious typo would piss off and save it for the your-instead-of-you’re people. 🙄

Who cares honestly?

the “rules” for language evolve over time and modern humans communicate differently. It’s hardly a surprise. There likely will be further changes as AI usage embeds. Nothing lasts forever.

Some of us are so chronically online that we can't actually remember if it's airplane or aeroplane or pajamas or pyjamas , so you definitely have a point.

My incredibly British friend who has never left the country used the word poop the other week and I questioned our 50 year friendship. She says she actually prefers it to poo 😖.