Have we accepted that "hacks" is the new word for "tips" now and how has that happened?

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Are we also going to go along with

diaper
sidewalk
color
nite
garbage
check
candy
chips
dish soap
movie
cookie
vacation
elevator

why is hacks not tips de rigeur when all these others aren't?

I've seen some haughty 'kids are baby goats' comments on MN. Basically some people on this site refuse to use any slang words that wouldn't have been acceptable to a Mitford in 1952.

The phrase ‘reach out’ is annoying me mightily at the moment. It was ok (-a useful Americanisation right there) when it was used in the social emotional domain, but it seems to becoming normalised in customer services now, with companies ‘reaching out’ to customers for various reasons. What’s wrong with the verb “to contact”?

A phrase I keep seeing lately that I find odd in celebrity gossip is people paying 'tribute' to each other - for example "Celeb Husband pays tribute to Celeb Wife on her birthday". I instantly think "omg I didn't know Celebrity Wife had died".
Surely you pay tribute to someone when they've died... not when they are alive?

As explained upthread, two different meanings.
"reach out" means "contact with a view of offering or asking for help"

No. You can pay tribute to the living or the dead.
I suppose we often here it in funeral eulogies etc, but there's nothing inherent in the meaning that says it's only for the dead.

Using hack instead of tip makes my teeth itch. Hack to me is a leisurely ride for fun, or attacking a piece of meat with a blunt knife. I hate mom too.

@PAFMO I had never heard 'tribute' used in the way I keep seeing it now before. It just feels odd to me.

Mom is what people in the West Midlands call their mother. Although countless MN threads have shown me that many English people are unaware of this and think it's an American affectation by those who use it.

That's where it originated. (see explanations from pp upthread) A hack (as in life hack) is a shortcut, a quicker way to do something. Coming from the verb "to hack" as in "cut through" - hack through the woods etc instead of going round the long way.
I presume going hacking on horseback has the same origins. That you can go somewhere on a horse that would take you longer on foot or by other means.

Apparently, hack in the horse-riding sense isn't related to the verb "hack" (chop/cut away) at all, but is thought to actually come from Hackney, where "ordinary" horses were kept on pasture land (16th century)

(there's a great etymology online database full of these fascinating facts for anyone genuinely interested in language and not just beating the tiresome "it's American and it makes me cross" drum)

Yes I found @halfsiesonapotnoodle ‘a comment eventually! I missed it the first time by scrolling quickly on a phone. Snap & I’m glad I’m not the only one!

I hate mom too

Have you heard of a little place called "the West Midlands"?

Can I just be absolutely clear. I have no objection to the variations between UK English and US English. Of course not. Vive la difference!

I find the attitude that we have to accept Americanisms or be judged as anti-something-or-other tiresome myself. Especially when, as it too often does, it brings American economics and political issues with it. There was a lot of bother about using the term ‘thug’ recently, because that’s apparently viewed as racist in some quarters in America despite its longstanding descriptive value here.

But you've been told over and over that these so-called Americanisms, aren't.

You aren't showing that you're anti-American. You're showing that you're ignorant.

Three that I’ve caught creeping into Uk use;

Poop. It’s poo. Or shit. Not Poop.

dropped. Stop fucking dropping stuff. Music, films, clothes, do not “drop”.

clap back. What? Apart from the fact I don’t care if Rihanna clapped back at whoever, it’s not even a phrase that makes sense. I have a mental image of a latin dancer in that chest out pose doing two stern claps to the side.

Yes. But doesn't mean we have to love it being mom.

I HATE 'a pop of colour'

A splash of colour is better - why the heck would you change it to pop

You aren't showing that you're anti-American. You're showing that you're ignorant

No, some of them are Americanisms, as in the example I gave. But keep up with the pathetically judgemental hostility. Britain has been too Americanised already.

You make the point exactly and perfectly.

"De rigeur" came from England being invaded and dominated by the French. Yes many educated British people use that phrase now but it remains an indicator of invasion and the massive cultural changes that were imposed on the English.

The "invasion" by America is solely cultural thank fuck, but it is "invasive" and insidious