To ask if do (or will) miss British English?

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License plate - Number plate
Driver's license - Driving licence
Windshield - Windscreen
Envision - Envisage
Bring (instead of take)

So much British English is being replaced with the US versions.

UK courtroom dramas now feature lawyers shouting "objection!" and judges saying "sustained" - something that never actually happens in UK courts but the writers have all grown up watching US dramas and films.

I know it's inevitable but I celebrated the little differences - they seem to become fewer and fewer each year.

I don't think anyone said "UK law." And I think that people who said UK lawyer meant "lawyer in the UK." A similar situation exists in the US, except that we have many more separate jurisdictions. Someone might be an American or US lawyer, but admitted to the bar only in one state.

The op, in the op, said uk courtroom dramas and uk courts.

@Jarbed

If you like changing words why not use words from other languages too?

This would certainly occur if people were consuming media in a certain other language on a daily basis. Our use of language is influenced by our surroundings. English people consume a LOT of US media and are therefore influenced by it. We don't generally adopt German words because we don't generally hear or read German-language media. It's quite obvious isn't it?

Of course it is! But why are people consuming so much US media? There is plenty of media content in other variants of the English language.

Also, if people are starting to speak like people in US media and not like the people they live with they are obviously spending far too much time watching watching this content!

But why are people consuming so much US media? There is plenty of media content in other variants of the English language.

Probably because there is a lot more of it.

@Mittenmob

I hate the lack of 'the' in dates. "This film is out September third" yuck.

I was just about to say that 😤

BigYellowHat

Mittenmob
I hate the lack of 'the' in dates. "This film is out September third" yuck.

I was just about to say that 😤

Hate, hate, hate... so much hating in this thread. God forbid we could be accepting of other cultures.

If you like changing words why not use words from other languages too?

Many young people do: dialects with features of Jamaican Patois and Nigerian Pidgin have been steadily increasing among young black British people (most of whom are also incredibly adept at code switching) over the past couple of decades because of the importance of the music and media of those countries to those young people. The same is true of many young people’s use of Multicultural London English, which invokes a range of African, Caribbean, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, Arabic and Cockney grammar and vocabulary.

I hate the lack of 'the' in dates. "This film is out September third" yuck.*

I was just about to say that 😤*

Um.. many Americans actually do use “the” in dates. Why do you assume we don’t?

@ComtesseDeSpair

If you like changing words why not use words from other languages too?

Many young people do: dialects with features of Jamaican Patois and Nigerian Pidgin have been steadily increasing among young black British people (most of whom are also incredibly adept at code switching) over the past couple of decades because of the importance of the music and media of those countries to those young people. The same is true of many young people’s use of Multicultural London English, which invokes a range of African, Caribbean, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, Arabic and Cockney grammar and vocabulary.

That's great. It's not something I was aware of as I live in a very "white British" area . And it's not reflected in mainstream media.

@phoenixrosehere

* I hate the lack of 'the' in dates. "This film is out September third" yuck.*

I was just about to say that 😤*

Um.. many Americans actually do use “the” in dates. Why do you assume we don’t?

We assume because we never hear it!

Clearly using media from other parts of USA rather than yours!