..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

I have never heard a British person say "Y'all"
"Of off" and "other half" are both Northern English expressions in my experience. I've never heard an American say "other half" to refer to a romantic partner. I've heard it occasionally used jokingly in reference to a best friend.

I always say "film" (used to say "pictures", but left home)

I always ask "Please may I have..."

The last time I heard "Dude", it was sung by Mott the Hoople

The last time I heard "Y'all", it was said by Peter Buck of REM

I have never heard "Back in the day" and I have no idea what it means.

Do I pass the Quintessential Britishness test?

Tanith back in the day means "in the past".
I say movies or the movies, but I'm American.
The word "film" makes me think of the Father Ted episode where Ted and Dougal fail at protesting "The Passion of St Tibulus" and Bishop Brennan is shouting at them "People are coming from the mainland to see the filum! They're even coming from Gdansk to see the filum!"

To quote Chas & Dave

"I never been ripped orf, but I bin 'ad over
I've never gorn bananas, but I've gone spare
No way, I've never said it, I tell ya there's no chance
It ain't right 'ere, but it's alright over there

I never took in movies, I go up the pictures
I ain't a one to split when it's time to go
I've never 'ad no pussy, but I've 'ad me share o' grumble"

I've always said movies.
I had no idea that it was meant to be an American word. I use film and movie almost interchangeably.

To say "can I have" is also incorrect. It is "may I have".

It's a plane

I went through a phase in secondary school of using phrases such as 'wattup, daaaawg?' And 'fo' shizzle' and referring to police as 5-0 or po-po...

Nope, I am not a gangsta rapper from South Central LA, I was a white girl living in rural wales.

Still desperately trying to convince myself I was being ironic but I don't think I was

I just said movies out loud to test it. Sounds ridiculous with a Welsh accent. Film it is!

I say film

What I really hate is the unnecessary addition of 'like' in ny Dd's sentences. I am thinking about banning American TV. ....e.g. and he like said.....

Playdate.(sure to have been mentioned earlier).

My sister has been known to refer to the 'sidewalk' and the 'elevator'.

Born and lived in the UK all her life...to much Amercian TV though obviously.

my kids have started saying 'i'm done' when they mean i'm finished!!
My American daughter says 'I'm finished' if she's completed something. 'I'm done' implies an emotional state. For instance, she was done with school weeks months before she finished. Although she kicked it up a notch the week before graduation, telling me that she was, in fact, over school.

I grew up in England and the US, with heavy influence from Scotland and Ireland via family, and I use colloquialisms randomly from all of the above countries. Sometimes on purpose, sometimes without realizing which is what.
I use y'all and youse/yiz interchangeably, for instance. I utterly confused a poor friend the other day when I told her the plates were in the press. She had no clue. Although I've no idea why I used that particular word, it's not one I regularly use, it just came to mind before cupboard did. I think it's a bit like being bilingual - they all sound right to me.

My main beef with elevator

... is that it sounds too much like escalator
Which is just plain fucking confusing

There are some people being lighthearted on this thread and some people who are being weird and xenophobic. The latter remind me of white people in California who freak out whenever they hear Spanish spoken.

I say y'all but only ironically.

In ireland at least 30% say fillim. No idea why but i hate it. If movie caught on completely here it'd spare me the trauma of hearing about "a new fillim".

I'd imagine this thread is giving UKIP a huge sigh of relief.

vagndidit...well I don't know about that

I've had to explain to a surprising number of adults that the expressions they hear/things they see in American movies are not necessarily reflections of how people actually live. A woman and I were talking about childhood summers and I mentioned going to the community swimming pool. She stared at me and said, "But surely you had your own pool?" I laughed and she said, "But in movies..." This is a woman with advanced degrees!

By the same token people don't go around saying "ain't" and "y'all."

matilda I don't think anyone's being xenophobic.

American English is fine for Americans, it's just it seems to be infiltrating British English at an alarming rate since the increase in Internet use and multi-channel television.

Having lots of different varieties of the English language is fascinating.

It's a shame for all languages I think, as the whole world will speak American English eventually I'm certain.

Well, I go around saying y'all. But I am from the South.