..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 know, scone, and. I didn't say I wasn't ok with it. Just an observation - it's something that's changed quickly since the Internet was used widely, I think

. Pissed pisses me off too. A number of posters talk about being pissed at someone. So are they drunk?

And to go back to ginger, it is a clear Glasgow/Lanarkshire thing surely. The only people who use that term are weegies that have moved here.

We do call all cold drinks, other than milk and water juice though

"Back in the day" always gets my goat, as it's usually in reference to some kind of ersatz nostalgia for something crap that happened about 20 years ago.

"Oh my days" always makes me laugh, though, as, although it's a yoof thing, it sounds like something an mildly surprised elderly auntie would say.

Sorry, bigkids I realize my response had a tiny bit of snark in it.

On the xenophobia thing, I don't think that people who are concerned about influences on their language are necessarily xenophobic. I love language and I always participate in these threads because it is so interesting to me. But there is a tone that can be picked up from some posters (no one on this thread) in these discussions where it is clear that they consider "Americanism" ( a word coined in the US BTW) as a synonym for "vile abomination." That is xenophobic.

Feeling a bit sorry for the poor old US after reading this They are fully entitled to their own ways of speaking and vernacular. Britain, though it likes to think so, doesn't have the monopoly on speaking correctly. Because that's an entirely subjective concept.

It's not America's fault if some dafty in Sussex goes about shouting 'fuck all y'all'

"Back in the day" always gets my goat, as it's usually in reference to some kind of ersatz nostalgia for something crap that happened about 20 years ago.

That's kind of the definition of nostalgia.

As I mentioned before in this thread, "back in the day" is an African-American expression referring to the time before the crack epidemic. So it sounds weird when any white person uses it, frankly.

Good points TheFarce.

My favorite one of these posts was a while back when someone on MN was complaining about the use of the term "high school" in the UK as an Americanism. We got "high school" from the Scots. The first school to be called high school was the Royal High School in Edinburgh. The first school in the US to be called high school was modeled on it, and the term spread.

'Can I get' is used in Scotland all the time. Can I have is too polite for me.

I wouldn't say 'going to the movies'. I'd say 'going to the pictures' which is also scottish.

I get the xenophobia vibe when people act all victimised. As if kids saying "movie" were some sort of cultural threat. That's where I draw the analogy to white bigots in the US working themselves into a frenzy whenever they see a sign in Spanish. If there are additional words/dialects/languages in use, that's a good thing!

I have a child in my class who is from a traveller family. She is the only child I have ever heard refer to 'the pictures'. Her mum did say that they use a lot of traveller dialect at home so I'm not sure if 'the pictures' is included in that.

I always say 'going to the pictures,' chocolate, and it really confuses my very international colleagues in the language school where I work!

Not as much as when I say 'greeting' instead of crying, and its lovely past participle, 'gret.' An Italian colleague finished a whole James Kelman book then came to me to ask what the hell 'greeting ' meant!

An older expression in the US is "going to the picture show."

'the pictures' and 'the movies' are more or less the same thing since they are both abbreviations of 'moving pictures'.

I stick to 'the cinema'.

I go to the pictures to see a fillum and while I'm there I might say to the bairn behind the till 'can I get a juice' (which will almost certainly be a soda, and not include any juice from an actual fruit). Am a polyglot, me.

I go to the pictures.

Have also just realised that 14 year old DD also has a play piece. Usually a banana

The correct greeting is "alright?"

No. The correct greeting is 'How do?'

I have noticed on MN that 'cookies' has seemed to replaced biscuits. Except for of course.

LaVolcan it's 'ow do?

And surely it's y'right? rather than alright?

And cookie is a word we Americans got from the Dutch.

But my boy is a dude