AIBU to find his Americanisms really annoying

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My DP is British. He's lived in England his whole life. His father is Irish and mother English. They both speak like respectable Brits.

He doesn't have any American friends. He's only visited America once - with me two years ago.

Despite this, he has a really annoying habit of using odd Americanisms in everyday conversations. For example, we were just talking and using letters in our conversation ("If you do A and B, you'll get X"), and he replied with "or you'll get 'Z'", as in 'Zee'.

I asked him what he'd just said, assuming he'd correct himself, but no he just 'Zee'!

It happened a couple of days ago too. We're having our first baby and were looking at nappies. Throughout the whole shopping trip he kept referring to them as 'diapers'.

I don't have any other active examples at he moment, but I know there has been their incidents. I'm sure it's getting worse the older he gets as I don't remember this when our relationship began 10 years ago. I think it's because he watches a LOT of American TV. Anime with American voiceovers, American dramas, American comedies, American Youtube videos, etc (also annoying but a separate issue).

I Just find the constant use of Americanisms really annoying but he thinks it's fine. I don't want him teaching our son this. AIBU?

Isn't it funny? Americanisms slipped into speech are looked down on. Slip the odd French, Latin or Italian in and, unless you're Del Boy, you're seen as an intellectual!

DS does this. I stamp it out firmly. It sounds stupid.

People calling railway stations train stations is what bothers me, or train tracks instead of railway tracks. Then there's couch.

I'm guilty of all of the above.

There are definitely parts of the UK that use Mom (I learned that on Mumsnet ) and Santa Claus comes from the old Dutch Sinterklaas which I think was a name for St Nicholas...

HOWEVER, when my Home Counties born and bred brother says sidewalk I want to hit him!

squoosh Gawd, really? 😱😱 (runs away) ☺️

'DS does this. I stamp it out firmly. It sounds stupid.'

Wow. I guess my kids sound stupid . They're Scottish, with a Scottish father. I'm from America. They use some Americanisms. They usually stick to Americanisms when they are there and British speech when here but they do use some Americanisms in a Scottish accent. I forget some of the American words for things or don't even know them for things that came out after I left the States (15 years ago) and use a British word while there. I realise how wanky it sounds, I just explain I haven't lived there for a long time.

I'd be very annoyed too! It's not just words, it's also a mentality and culture!

My DH is a former US citizen and every Americanism is banned in our home, starting from kids YouTube :)

I was at a deli counter yesterday behind 4 young men who were all ordering wraps.

Each of them in turn, said 'can I get...' for every ingredient. I was inwardly shouting, 'HAVE!!'

My husband calls nappies diapers. He's from Northern Ireland-he reckons that's what his family and everyone in his village called them.

Southern Irish people say zee.

My DH is a former US citizen and every Americanism is banned in our home

Seems very harsh.

This is the thread for me.

My DH is full of Americanisms. He's scouse, and has lived in Liverpool all his life. His grandad was a war baby, supposedly fathered by an American G.I., so it's a long-standing joke that it's in his genes.

D's instead of t's in words? Yep.
Sidewalk, elevator, movies, apartment? Yep.
He calls everyone BUDDY. Even worse, he often abbreviates it to 'Bud.' Paying a tax driver - 'Cheers, bud.'

I love him, but god, he's a sod for it.

Southern Irish people say zee.

Not one I've ever met.

Slip the odd French, Latin or Italian in and unless you're Del Boy you're seen as an intellectual

I don't think you are, I think you are seen as a twat. Ou un con si tu preferes.

Mom/mommy is not an Americanism. It is used in some parts of the UK.

I'm originally from the West Midlands, where mom/mommy is commonplace. Now live in the States, so that transition was easy for me!

It annoys me when the kids in my class ask if we're going to watch a movie at the end of term. I say, "No, we're going to watch a film"

Haven't read the whole thread but diaper was originally a British word, as was fall for autumn and candy for sweets. We moved on to using words like nappies but America continued using the words the British pilgrims had taken across the Atlantic.

Where did the word diaper come from anyway? Most US English seems to have its root in UK English to some extent, movies move, pacifiers pacify, but where does diaper come from?

Oh cross post LockedOut, but still interested in the derivation! Did Elizabethans say diaper?

I spent two years teaching Americanisms out of English language learners. I'm sure it was all in vain.

Can I get... is my absolute pet hate.

sodorisland What should you ask for if you want paracetamol? Just in case I ever find myself in that position?

I recently found out in first aid training (can't verify it) that if you dial 911 it goes through to 999 because so many people in the UK only know 911

My dad gets so irritated if railway stations are referred to as "train stations"-it really irks him

Acetaminophen Asmoto.

Thanks, Penguin!