to wish that people wouldn't say "cheers" when they mean "thankyou" ?

[vienna1981]

This usage aspect has always got up my nose. I just think it's lazy and vaguely disrespectful when "thankyou" is just as easy to say and has a more polite ring to it.

Sorry if this is a massive irrelevance folks. It's been one of those weeks at work. I'm tired and struggling for a subject .

I think you'll find the full correct pronunciation to be 'cheers, big ears'.
To which the appropriate repose is 'same goes, big nose'.

I say it sometimes

Don't read too much into it, it's not worth it.

Then there is I'm good for I'm well . . . oh dear.

Cheers IS thank you here in Ireland!

Is this real!? Cheers is common here in Yorkshire too.. As long as someone is expressing thanks then it's all good. Find something more important to get wound up about
Cheers

I am not wound up. Nor was I. As it happens I had totally forgotten about this thread.

Felicitations.

Lots of people say cheers in London instead of thanks, it's kind of a more casual / friendly 'matey' way of saying thanks.

I would find it more rude if they didn't say anything when a thanks was in place.

My pet hate from people I don't know is 'take care'. What do I sound like on the phone like I'm about to throw myself under a bus?!

Ps I say cheers, thanks, thank you depending on my mood.

struggling for a subject?
Ain't that the truth.

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Randall yang. The correct response to 'cheers big ears' is 'no sweat fat get'

I say "cheers!" ....used to say it rarely and then read somewhere that it was especially common for ladies to say it
so i made much more of an effort to use it on all occasions.

I do hate "Hiya!" though. Hi is fine, but Hiya really grates.

Surely "cheers" should be "cheers hun" or "cheers mate" though, right?

with the ultimate finisher - 'quits, tits'

I'm a Kiwi and I sometimes say 'cheers' for thanks. I mean it just as sincerely. I didn't realise people might not interpret it that way.

I think this is one of those instances where you can persist in assuming people mean in the way that you think they do, or you can just accept that actually, they mean it in a genuine way. The latter is better for your blood pressure. :)

Or worse: Can I get?

If I'm being pedantic OP, I find your phrase 'usage aspect' (in your original posy) hugely clunky and grammatically irritating, but I wouldn't start a thread about it! . It's just 'usage' btw.

Didnt realise it was something to get upset with, cheers for telling me. . first time ive used the word cheers in that context

Where I live people brush knuckles and say 'yow blud' or 'yow fam'. It puts 'cheers' on a par with Spencerian epigrams.

My kids enjoying clinking their apple juice/ milk/ lemonade and saying cheers it is customary when at a meal out or for a first drink at a pub when you haven't seen the people you are out with for a while. I use it to sign off a message when 'thank you' is too stiff and formal, but I will use thank you when someone has done me an actual favour.

For eg the kids do not says 'cheers' when I bring them a drink/ food etc. But I may say 'cheers' if dh gets me a cup of tea... Or I may say "oh my god, thank you so much that is just what I needed!" Depending on how much I appreciated the timing of that tea

Do you also object to 18mo toddlers being taught to say 'Ta'?

Indeed I do. It's frightfully common and shouldn't be encouraged in the young.

Oh FFS, language evoles. So what if we say "cheers" in place of "thank you". Be grateful that people say that instead of nothing at all!

vienna, YANBU, my DSs say it and it annoys me. I also dislike being ordered to 'enjoy' a restaurant meal.

"Thank you" at the end of an email means "I can barely contain my rage you haven't done this already"

According to a funny meme ive seen on Pinterest

Never heard cheers or noticed it I don't think