To just have a little vent about this?

[TweeAintMee]

We go out of doors and look out of windows.
So many people have adopted the American style that removes the of e.g. on a recent thread someone posted "I looked out the window and saw..."

Sorry, just needed to say....(not really a major issue is it, but hey..)

Yes, I have to admit I am getting a bit weary of everything "bad" being attributed to Americans. Especially things that I (as an American) have rarely heard said or done in America in all the years I lived there, but have heard here in the UK numerous times.

Well since we are venting, I'm English and I loathe the way English people pronounce "fillet" as in fish fillet (rhymes with "bill-it"). It's such an embarrassing mis-pronunciation of a french word. At least the Americans say filet (sounds like "fil-ay") properly. This one has been annoying me since I was a child for some reason.

I'm in Scotland and I've never heard "out of the door". It would also never occur to me to say "out of the window".

Rainbunny, last week my manager told me that she had bought a fur "gillit", i.e. a gilet

But Rainbunny, fillet is an English word, derived from the French filet. The double consonant means that it must be pronounced fillet rather than in the French way.

Twee - Oh I know, in fact here is great site for anyone interested in anglo/American differences in language: separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2006/08/pronouncing-french-words-and-names.html

But it still sounds utterly ridiculous to my ears and it always has done.

Felix Are you from Wigan by any chance?

I'm from just south of Sheffield but lived in Leeds for a few years. I'd love to be from Lancashire though

I really can't stand it when people leave out the 'to'
He lent it me
She threw it me
He sold it me
Etc.
Hate it.

Sorry OP, your bum's oot the windae on this.

'Different than' is ridiculous and appalling. It's 'similar to' and 'different from' It's not a comparator in the same sense of bigger, smaller etc. 'Than' is simply incorrect and is getting out of hand in the UK. The only thing worse is this 'upcoming' crap. It's FORTHCOMING in English. Why is the BBC insistent on ramming this American, imported variant down our throats at every turn, for example?