To hate this Americanism that has crept in to our language

[Mooos]

"Go figure"

Does it wind anyone else up too - or is it just me?

Ahh,ItsGhoulAgain, but 'serviette' isn't actually English.

Napkin is.

dh gets cross if school balls are called 'prom'

my pet hate is 'gotten' instead of got as in 'yah, dd has nearly gotten over her cold' vom

yy to 'my bad'. it will always make me think of the inane amercian couselors i worked with at summer camp.

You can grumble about this as you take your kids out trick or treating. Not going to give any pennies for the guy, are you?

'my bad' is unforgiveable.

but I'd stil take that over the hideous (British) 'Is it?' that teenagers use - when they're not asking a question.

Eg

'I'm going to watch X Factor.'

'is it?'

yy to 'i fell pregnant' my friend said this about her ds and then looked surprised when i asked if he was unplanned

Wouldn't it be funny if we all used absolutely correct expressions all the time, though?
"My partner has impregnated me."
"I say, would congratulations be appropriate?"
"They could be, though we would have preferred impregnation to occur next year."
"Congratulations, then, albeit earlier than you may have wished!"
"Thank you; one can't always control natural events precisely, can one?"
"No, one often gets what one wished for at an unwished-for time."
"If only one could explain why that may be!"
"Yes ... go figure"

he he itsghoulagain

i like colloquialisms very much. here we have 'a'right my buay' and 'mitchin off school' instead of playing truant.

what annoys me, however, is termms becoming trendy to use because they are heard on american tv programmes and the like

I love 'Bite me'. It's so expressive. There are times when nothing else will do except a withering 'Bite me'.

OK - why did the italics not work there? I demand to know!

Oh, I like mitchin'. Round here, they skank off school. We used to skive - it still sounds like a rockabilly dance to me!

hmm. i also like mitchin'. i do not like it when they (inc dh) say 'i was lygat yeh' instead of 'i replied that'

Mom

is part of English dialect isn't it? Brummie or somewhere "innit"

shh - see someone beat me too it on the mom

Mam very common in the NE.

I've never understood "Bite me". It just seems risky, somehow.

MadameD - just an odd thing dredged from my memory. People don't really say axed where I am, so I have no occasion for it to rile me.

I don't mind Americanisms generally, but one just makes me cringe -

I don't take a decision, I make one!

i have never heard an American take a decision.

Go figure comes from Yiddish? Who knew

. ...learn a new thing everyday.

Oh I absolutely love Go Figure. There is nothing quite like it in English.

Anyone saying "Can I get" instead of "may I have" drives me up the wall. I so want to correct them.

why? the grammar is fine.

oooh I have to rant about the girl at work, her accent makes my piss boil.

All, n'aink, s'aink, where was ya .

She has an Essex accent, much like that crappy Essex Docusoap thingamy with a bit of Jade Goody thrown in, yes, there are people out there that actually speak that way.

And when she tells me some inane story about her weekend, it's all "and aaah was like nah, and she was like yeeah, and aah said nah"

It makes me cringe when she speaks to customers!

Also not a fan of Americanisms, only because most of them are non-sensical and when Brits say them to try and sound "cool" also makes me cringe.

On the subject of accents, has anyone heard Nadine Coyle lately??? WTF is that Irish/Calafornian thing she is doing??!!

*Californian

"Can I get" is so incorrect when asking for something in a shop; e.g. "Can I get a burger"