Americanisms

[SecretsInSpitalfield]

I have family in the US. I love going there. Since lockdown my DS’s (9 and 11) have said ‘OMG’ and ‘like’ about a thousand times a day!

Do our lovely cousins across the pond have this with their DC? Is it normal?

Maybe it's because statistics is always plural (and you can have one "stat" or many "stats,") but we use mathematics as a mass noun so with a singular verb form.

One thing American usage has definitely gotten right is dish soap. Two syllables - short and sweet and far better than the clunky five-syllable faffery of 'washing-up liquid'.

Dish soap - that made me think of the tablet of soap you put in a soap dish in the bathroom.

Washing liquid - no wouldn't work either, clothes or crockery?

Hooston, I would say Hewston
Hewston for the city in Texas, but I'm from NY and Houston Street is How-ston Street so this is something Americans differ on too, haha.

To wade into the great date debate, I've gotten to the point where both confuse me and I write out the month. 10 April 2020 and April 10, 2020 are both recognizable by anyone even though each is only normal on one side of the Atlantic. My pet peeve is that MS Excel auto changes dates even when you're using it on a British computer. Sometimes it gets mixed up and I can't remember what I put originally.