..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

[ArcheryAnnie]

"Please may I have" trumps "can I get" every time, on politeness grounds as well as linguistic drift grounds.

The hill I will die on is "math". It's not "math", it's "MATHS".

[worldcuprefusenik]

I got a very strange (dumbfounded) look on a teen summer camp once when I asked an American lad to pass me a rubber . I had no idea at all what was going on!

[SconeRhymesWithGone]

"Meet with" is a useful expression because (in the US) it means a formal meeting, almost always in a business context. It's an example of the language evolving to be more precise.

[SconeRhymesWithGone]

There is no linguistic drift with the "I get" part of "can I get." "Get" does not have some sort of built in reflexive as so many posters on MN seem to think.

[NinjaLeprechaun]

The hill I will die on is "math". It's not "math", it's "MATHS".
Even if maths is plural then you're generally only doing a singular 'math' at a time. If you mean arithmetic, it seems a bit unnecessary to include calculus as well.

[PrincessBabyCat]

Well, if it makes you feel better the words wank, bloody, and cheerios has made its way over here in the US. Also, with the rise in popularity with British shows like Dr. Who and Sherlock, there's probably going to be more phrases.

[wobblyweebles]

Math is an older term than maths.

It does seem grammatically incorrect that people say 'My least favourite subject is maths' rather than 'My least favourite subjects are maths.'

[RiverTam]

but it's one subject, like classics, so it's grammatically correct. A singular group noun, I suppose.