'I'm pissed'

[MarthasGinYard]

Aibu that this little saying that's crept in and dropped its 'off' gives me a mini rage

'Aibu to be pissed at dp'....

'I'm so pissed with Mil'....

'So pissed that dc won't eat their greens'....

It's OFF

Mumsnet is a real education in how plain old-fashioned snobbery, in the guise of concern for language, is alive and well. The unpleasant disparaging tone in some of these posts shock I'm not a fan of all Americanisms either. But I don't consider them inferior! This must be a hangover from colonialism (and an awareness of Britain's diminishing status in the world, making the presumedly superior language something to hang on to?). There's no other sensible explanation.

hear here ;)

"I'm not a fan of all Americanisms either. But I don't consider them inferior!"

I don't either. Perfectly fine for Americans to use them, the clue is in the name. They are not inferior in themselves, it's just unbelievably irritating when British people for absolutely no good reason adopt them.

""I was gifted a [necklace, or whatever]". Weren't you just GIVEN the necklace?"

Yes this is also annoying. I'm not aware that it's an Americanism but it just makes people sound a bit pretentious really.

I stand corrected mathsanxiety. You're quite right.

But there are lots of loan words and phrases from all over the world that have been seamlessly embraced by the English language, Flowery. Is it just Americanisms that are either adopted for no good reason or objectionable for what they are?

www.bloomsbury-international.com/blog/2016/09/30/english-borrowed-words-languages/
Not a comprehensive list.

www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Words04/structure/borrowed.html
Longer and more detailed.

There's a thread about fancy dress ideas at the moment where a poster suggested red suspenders as part of a firefighter costume.

Since this was for a kid at school, not a kinky party, that was a definite moment until I wondered if there was a language issue & worked out that suspenders was American for braces .