'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

shelleyboobs

I'm not American .

But I have probably been influenced by America and Australia to some degree.

Oops! Sorry kalapattar completely missed that it was somone else's post you were quoting.

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

Well to be fair I’m not sure how you Americans have managed to decide that b u o y spells ‘boo-eee’, either.

Surely it would be ‘boo-oy’.

Yanks? I spent part of my childhood near a USAF base where many of the officers lived off-base and they and the “enlisted men” were often in town, and relations were generally good; but the American officers were mostly from the South (and almost exclusively white) and they were not so much annoyed as puzzled at being called Yanks. Many of them were probably descended from Confederate officers and to them Yanks was short for “damned Yankees”.

I quite agree. Some of these usages creep up and suddenly 'The Times' is using them as if they were ubiquitous. The one that really annoys me is 'Passed' when someone dies. It used to be 'Passed away.'

Another is the current usage of 'likely' as in 'They are likely late' instead of what everyone used to say which was' It is likely that they will be late.' I looked it up and the first usage is an Americanism.

Drives me nuts. Not that I mind Americanisms but that no one else seems to remember that things were ever any different. I feel like an alien.

I am a bit disappointed that you are sober but while we are here can I complain about things being proper smart or her being proper angry or proper tired etc. Teenagers.

Has anyone else noticed the way that the word 'super' has crept in as an intensifier? E.g. I'm super excited to be here.

Soon we will have no-one using the English equivalent- the humble 'very'. Even heard Matt Baker using 'super' in this way on The One Show. Not super duper in my book!

I really hate it when people use 'I' instead of 'me'. Americans do this all the time (and English people who think they are posh). Would you like to come for dinner with DH and I - for example. No-one would ever say would you like to come for dinner with I, would they?!

My greatest vexation of Americanism is the word ‘like’. A perfectly acceptable word except when it is used 10 times in a sentence. If anyone has watched love Island, apparently used 6,000 times or something last night, they will get me, innit.

@bettyg66 YES!!! Although not all Americans are that poorly educated.

Reference: "come to the party with (dh and) I."

No! Come to the party with ME!!

Remove the "dh and" to decide me/I.

Poor grammar sounds (as dc say) "sooo try-hard."

"I've never eaten as tasty of a dish"
"He'd never attended as important of an event as that one"

More than 20 years in america and never come across these in normal speech or on the tv. Is it regional?

The "with Dh and I" is now normal in UK and Irish speech (I know because it drives me mad and I really notice it). You hear it used by by educated people, in songs etc. - on both sides of the atlantic. My american children use it correctly because I correct them when they don't. I think they may roll their eyes at me. Unfortunately this may be a usage (like "it is me") that will become the norm.

Y'all snobs be like Xenia in a moment complaining that one's offspring should never be called "kids". That Prince Charles calls his kids kids seems to seal the snobbery about that one.

Not nevessarily American but very comminly used by American teenagers, I am amazed nobody has mentioned how “oh my God” has become ohmagod. Dd, 15, glued to Instagram and You Tube, honestly the times I hear: “I was, like, ohmagod!” It’s as though ohmagod has become a verb, a state of being, a blanket description for anything!

I also somehow there invented the word nevessarily. Ohmagod!

Snausage
GAH! YADEFINITELYNBU. It's like the erroneous "of" that Americans love so much:

"I've never eaten as tasty of a dish"
"He'd never attended as important of an event as that one"
"I'd never come across as clever a child as that one"

Cross my heart, I have never heard any of these expressions or anything like them in all my decades in the US. Your examples are clunky and improbable in the extreme.

And the last one doesn't contain the word 'of'.

(And Americans do not use the word 'clever', by and large).

x-post there with Pallisers...

Wrt 'Macaroni cheese' - growing up in Dublin, we called mum's baked pasta and cheese sauce dish 'macaroni and cheese'.

weedoogie
"the Nicks play the Rams Thursday"; no they don't - they play on Thursday....
The Nicks? You may be thinking of the Knicks, but they wouldn't be playing the Rams, as there are two different sports involved.

NOtLinked1n
Anybody under 25 thinks traveling has one L and jewlry has 6 letters. And so on.
Jewelry actually has 7 letters.

Loving this pedantry thing.

Cosylulu - I thought that was more like "ermagahd!" Or Oh Em Gee.

Yet another Americanism. What about 'I'm nervous around dentists'? instead of 'nervous with/about dentists'- there are so many.

Upper class Englishman: He was my fag at Eton.

American: You guys sure are frank about these things!

Oh, I have heard the extraneous 'of' thing. I've heard it form British dcs and wondered where they got it from.

e.g. 'he wasn't that good of a dad'.

May I add 'excited for'. I believe this means excited for another person and their impending experience. 'I am so excited for Jill, she's going to Disneyland'.

If I am excited about something that I'm going to experience, it's 'excited about'.

But I have noticed the North American habit of saying 'I am excited for [myself] the weekend / my birthday / my holiday' etc creeping in a bit here. It doesn't quite confuse but it does sound really odd, to my ear.

BettyG66

I really hate it when people use 'I' instead of 'me'. Americans do this all the time (and English people who think they are posh). Would you like to come for dinner with DH and I - for example. No-one would ever say would you like to come for dinner with I, would they?!

When you write ”English”, are you suggesting that only English people in England do so, or are you, rather irritatingly, using English as a substitute for British?

As regards the content of your post, you are generalising hugely with the “all the time” phrase.

Glass houses and all that. Lol

It’s macaroni AND cheese.