'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

Macaroni cheese, macaroni cheese, macaroni cheese!

It's short for 'macaroni in cheese sauce'. Macaroni and cheese sounds like some macaroni and, separately, a block of cheese.

Buoy ( have you ever heard an American say this?? I seem to develop Tourette’s and scream at the tv ‘ it’s BOY ffs’ every time, without fail.
It's pronounced booey in Ireland as well.

It’s macaroni AND cheese.

Do you say cauliflower AND cheese or cauliflower cheese?

The worst thing is everyone on tv or radio starting every single sentence with "So,"

Macaroni and cheese (sauce is implied)
As any fule kno...

According to my old Home Ec book it's macaroni cheese and cauliflower au gratin.

Nooo, macaroni in or with cheese sauce. Macaroni cheese. Always has been, always will be (in this little corner of the world).

Of course Americans may call their dish what they wish.

Au gratin is cheese on top, melted, is it not?

What have Americans got against the letter 'u'?

Flavor
Honor
Color
Favorite

Did it do something to upset them?

To be fair to US spelling, it has been standardised and makes much more sense than UK spelling.

Just to clarify, im open to the natural evolution of language so it is an observation no more.
If my spell check puts a squiggly red line under travelling I leave the 2 ls there but most young people would take it out.

Upper class Englishman: He was my fag at Eton.
American: You guys sure are frank about these things!

In a great many cases, yes, the upper class Englishmen were being completely frank.

What about 'I'm nervous around dentists'? instead of 'nervous with/about dentists'
Again, a very clunky and improbable turn of phrase for an American. If an American said this, it could be interpreted literally - feeling nervous in the company of dentists.

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'.
You have this one mixed up - you could easily be excited for Jill in British English, and nobody would raise an eyebrow.

An American would be excited for their trip to Disneyland - 'I'm so excited for my trip to Disneyland' - meaning I'm excited about it.

Only one of my American DDs ever uses this construction. She is the one who adopted the accents of her elementary school teachers along with many American phrases, and when she went to university in another region many of her fellow students asked her how she found life in America. The local accent really is a doozy of an accent

I know lots of boys who fagged/had a fag. I know people who had a batman too...

Math, I believe we're saying the same thing about 'excited for'

We're both saying that in British English, one is 'excited for' another person, whereas in American English, one can be 'excited for' an event in ones own life. Where a Brit would say 'excited about'.

To my ear, 'excited for my holiday' sounds wrong, there's something detached about it.

Not to mention 'excited for the holidays' where it turns out that by 'the holidays' they mean Christmas. This really has confused me in conversation. To me THE holidays are the summer holidays - as they're the longest school holiday and time when most people go away on holiday.

I haven't heard Brits copying that one, yet. My experience here is that everyone, whatever their religion, calls the Christmas holiday Christmas and the only people who say we 're not allowed to call it Christmas are hyperbolic tabloid newspaper writers. The idea of a PC shift to 'the holidays' therefore seems satirical, or so intensely earnest it becomes self-satire, to my British ear at least.

'The holidays' is a perfectly practical phrase in a secular society where Christmas is not celebrated by everyone who is celebrating at the end of December. The difference in the US is that Christmas is not the default holiday at that time, much to the dismay of fundamentalists.

Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Winter solstice, and New Years Eve all fall around the same time. 'The holidays' makes everyone in festive spirit feel included, and favours no particular tradition. It means you can avoid singling people out on the basis of religion or assumed religion - no guessing if it's 'Happy Hanukkah' or 'Merry Christmas' for each individual in your office, etc..

British people using the phrase are probably not fans of secularism, I agree, and are just copying something they have heard on TV.

Bastardisation of the English language.

You mean like this, LiteraryDevil1?

www.arrantpedantry.com/2014/12/01/celtic-and-the-history-of-the-english-language/

Though the author of that link ^^ appears to see modern German, Frisian, etc as set in stone and takes insufficient account of the sturdiness of 'regional' dialects in the pre-Gutenberg days.

www.thehistoryofenglish.com/history.html

I find it really interesting.

Have you ever read star of the sea by Joseph O'connor @mathanxiety? He really captures amongst other bigger themes (!) that point when the language was slipping away from Irish to English. You could feel it nearly. Or, with a fascination for this, I felt it, as well as the hunger and the hope and the scheming and cheating!

Weirdly, I am next in line in my local library for that one . It's on my summer reading list and hopefully whoever has it now won't take too long about returning it. I was intrigued by it after learning that the author is Sinead O'Connor's brother, and have read great reviews.

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)

Prince William and Prince Harry both do this. I doubt that they are doing it to try to seem posh. (As an aside, they also probably refer to themselves as British rather than English.)

Indeed.

You know what pisses me off?

"I know, right?!"

and

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

Yanbu
Pissed means drunk. In English English.

Good lord. Language isn't static and meanings can change over time. Stop being so prescriptive and accept the fact!

It's 'British English', not English English.