..to hate it when a British person says..

[Primadonnagirl]

..the word " movie"
...." Can I get?!"
... " dude"
... Y'all"
... "Back in the day"

V grumpy today

The word cookie is only allowed in chocolate chip cookies for alliterative purposes.

Also 'All The Young Dudes' was recorded by the English band Mott the Hoople and written by The English David Bowie all the way back in 1972. So we have 40 years history of using it, so is that OK?

The one that has started to piss me off is 'movie out July Ten'.

It's just pure bloody laziness to not say 'the tenth of July'.

maltida I don't understand your comment about silos. UK farms use them too so I don't see why that would be considered an American phrase?

I hate "gotten". All the others I don't mind.

'My bad' is the worst from anyone American or not.

Yeah, but don't they look different in the UK? Squatter, and in clusters, and in smaller fields.

So you don't get the tall skinny Nebraska-style silo in a huge field.

The one that has started to piss me off is 'movie out July Ten'.

I second this!

And yes Ineed, they were always called grain silos in my farming youth. I don't know what else you would call them.

Your love and pity doth the impression fill,
Which vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow;
For what care I who calls me well or ill,
So you o'er-green my bad, my good allow?

Shakespeare, Sonnet 112

Poster who are interested in this topic should read "Mother Tongue" by Bill Bryson. It discusses the differences between American an British English.

When did I say there are no silos in the UK? I said they were different from those in the US. Why bother posting on a thread if you're only going to skim-read?

And Scone, I love that!

Have never heard anyone in the UK refer to silos outside of an agricultural context.

Also the use of "silos". (As in, we need to integrate our office branches more and not operate like silos.) American silos are these ten-storey towers standing alone in the middle of grain fields, so the image makes a striking metaphor. But why would someone say it here?

To me that reads that there are no silos in the UK. But I now understand that you mean the visual isn't as striking.

That said, I've never heard the term.

Yes, I see. Sorry to get grumpy.

We use the phrase in American English, "Don't operate like a silo," meaning, don't work in isolation. It's become sort of overused business-speak.

I have heard it once or twice here in that context. It's probably not catching on.

I think all ridiculous business speak should be nipped in the bud.

And then tossed in the silo.

I have heard "silos" several times in business meetings here in the UK.

Kim, you're a little too good at that.

Shudders.

I hate to see 'practiced' spelled with a c, when in British English it would be 'practised'.

Yo peeps, whats yo beef?

Also, stop saying British, its frikkin annoying me. (dude).

I've just looked up American silos on google images, very phallic structures!