'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

They also say 'pissy' as in 'she was pissy with my ' I.E. Short-tempered, bad mood, snappy

HATE pissy even more than 'pissed'

Loving the juxtaposition here 😂

YANBU.

It amazes me that the same xenophobes who voted Brexit would happily spunk away their own language.

Oh darn !! I thought this was a drunk thread....

IN 25 years we will all have American accents.

I think the English have a more stocatto accent than the Irish but our accents seem particularly receptive to American influence. There is no point bemoaning it and lecturing people to speak in the British way. Anybody under 25 thinks traveling has one L and jewlry has 6 letters. And so on.

@whattheactualfuckmate, that's what i thought. I thought somebody was indignant that they'd been told they were pissed!

My least favourite Americanism is the P on the end of poo.

Tell me about it.

And put a "s" on the end of MATH while you're about it.

However there's a English one that bugs me and that's "Can I come with?".

You mean "Can I come with YOU?" Does that bother anyone else?

Anybody under 25 thinks traveling has one L and jewlry has 6 letters

And that fortnight is in fact spelt 'Fortnite'......

Yes! Along with "he passed" rather than "he passed away" or "he died" and my least favourite: "poop".

I think Americanism are all about sanitizing, or removing emotions from speech. So poo is not quite so cute as poop. He passed could mean anything, passed away means he's well gone.

Grrr to the general americanisation of the English language in England!

Brits pronounce "buoy" as "boy"? I never knew that. Why? Wouldn't it be spelled b o y then?

Instead of being so annoyed at the turns of phrase that we Americans use, why not just feel complimented that we prefer your message board to the thousands of American versions out there?

Instead of being so annoyed at the turns of phrase that we Americans use, why not just feel complimented that we prefer your message board to the thousands of American versions out there

It's fascinating the way different words are pronounced.

But US culture has definitely influenced us.

Means two different things to me.

With 'off' - annoyed
Without 'off' - very drunk

How do Americans pronounce 'buoy' then?

Fanny, means 2 different things and I hate hearing 'Fanny pack'.
Spunk, again in America an UK the words have very different meanings. An American friend used to have a dog called spunkie which used to crack me up every time I heard her call him. Also if she ever used the phrase "so and so is full of Spunk, tennis lady moments.

@thenightsky, believe it or not we say "boo-ee"!

It's just occurred to me that I pronounce the word "Buoyant" as "boy-ant". Fucking hell. How can I say boy-ant and boo-ee?

Also rubbers, we call erasers rubbers and Americans mean condoms.
Biscuits and chips mean things in each country.

My sister found that out when she loved to the states and yelled across the office 'anyone got a rubber? I need a rubber!'

They can be quite po-faced in America can't they?

I wouldn't worry about American influencing UK english, after all UK had a huge influence on US seeing they speak mostly English sort of None of it bothers me, but I have spent just about all my adult life living there and now am experiencing reverse culture shock living in UK.
I still say Math, and pronounce Bouy and Booee, used the phrase "pissed at" while in work last weekend, and for a while couldn't figure out why work collegue looked at me sideways.
My kids Pooped in diapers as babies (I still call them that)
Language is fluid, and constantly changing. It's not like most of us could chat away to someone from 1400's and actually know what they were talking about and be able to have a conversation with them easily.

I felt very irritated recently when my DS was trying to work out the correct word to use and was talking about British English v American English and I pointed out it is simply English or American English. It’s only the Americans that call it British English.

Another Americanism we don't need. YANBU.

kalapattar we’re not pissed at you Americans using whatever turns of phrase you want to use.

We’re just pissed off with Brits adopting them.

Stop calling us Brits, Yanks.

Gotten

Doublenegative I’m certainly not annoyed at Americans using the American way of saying things, not at all, what annoys me and others on here is when we have our own way of saying things such as pissed off etc that British people then use the American version, particularly when the American version means something completely different.