..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

But greeneggs British English is a term of art as is Amerian English. They even have abbreviations, BrE and AmE.

How are you?
I'm good!

Grrrrrrrr.

I hate it when people say "I could care less". No, what you mean is you couldN'T care less, that's the whole point!

And, relax...

I love 'mustn't grumble'. It's so ridiculous, only grumblers say that.

We don't do the practice/practise distinction in AmE. It's practice for both, which is a good thing, because I would have to think about it every time.

thefarce I enjoyed your reply a lot !

People often say 'should of' or 'could of' instead of 'should have' 'could have' where I live and a part of me dies every time I hear it/read it.

I would never correct anyone though. It's not cool.

TheFarce isn't that what grimbletart was saying?

"PractiCed" (the piano) would be wrong, whereas "practiSed" would be correct, as it is a verb?

I say 'mustn't grumble' all the time I adore it, it so so English a phrase

I live in Scotland now. The Scottish use of 'juice' still puzzles me a bit but it REALLY confused me when I first moved here. 'would you like a juice big kids'? 'yes please' 'here, an irn bru'

But how about a 'piece', bigkids? A piece of what?

You need to ask for fresh juice or diluting bigkids be specicic

YES

my 3yo asked for a piece and jam the other day. I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about. I had to google it

When i first moved to Scotland I tried registering with the Doctor.

-Where do you stay?

errr I live here

I know but where do you stay?

• In my flat

and so on and so forth.

Ach a wee jeely peice

I say dude. [Hangs head in shame]

I need a bit o' peace to ha' a piece of ma piece.

Simples.

I use 'going to the flicks' for movies/films at the cinema. It irritates my children which amuses me, but like a lot of my slang it comes from my big sister, so is just out of date.

We moved to Canada so I have to put up with different ways of speaking, and over time have of course assimilated, although I still use a lot of 'Englishisms' too. So I say pissed off and pissed too. In fact I might well use pissed for both drunk and angry

Is 'back in the day' really just African-American? It's pretty widely used here in Western Canada which has a very different heritage, it's just a variation of 'in the old days'.

I'm not sure which is worse - Can I get or Skinny Latte!

Juice is juice whether its fizzy, diluted, fresh, whatever, its all juice. Why is that so strange?

My SIL, always goes on about Scots saying "where do you stay?" rather than "where do you live?".

DH who is English had adopted "can I get", he annoys himself saying it. I like to point out when he does say it .

What I find really irritating is when English people complain about the Americanisation of English when some of these things were taken to America by the Scots. High school being one of them and Santa ather than Father Christmas. No, they've not been imported to this country from Anerican films, it's the other way around!!! And don't get me started about Hallowe'en!!!