To be annoyed by the American English on MN

[mrsruffallo]

You know, I was so pissed at him
Mom instead of mum
Mad instead of angry
Sure there are more but I find it really annoying!
AIBU?

I find closure irritating also..

'closure' is irritating, but unfortunately it's a very useful word in some contexts. I can't think of a non-american english equivalent

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YABU and ever so slightly snobbish.

I think i'm well behind here. . . I'm an (ex) Midlander and I've always called my mother, mom. I want to be mom/mommy too, in fact when DH (Southern Softie!!) gets/signs cards from the girls I get irrationally upset when he signs mummy/mum.

yabu
dontcha know that this the world wide tinternet
so ergo..anyone can post
in whatsovever style they please

Yes they can but I don't have to like it

I thought it was just my mum who said Mom - she is Brummie too.

I'm American and I think it's odd that you would get annoyed by things that are so insignificant.

welll......

The world is getting smaller, and expressions creep in.
I have been here 10 years (canadian) and I've hung on to some of my Canadianisms. My MOM is MOM, but I am a MUM {IYSWIM}

However, for all you worrying that the English language will be wiped out by an onsluaght of "Americanisms" it seems to be a two-way street. I have noticed British sayings creeping into the vocabulary of people back home (and not from me!!)

I wonder if they are annoyed at the English invasion?

I'm American (kind of) but I pretend to be British on MN. Toodle pip!

hy does no one say sun tan lotion any more? It's always sun screen or sun cream.

I am irrationally annoyed by text speak, because I think it shows laziness and an inability to spell.

But Americanisms can be quaint, as with other -isms. If Americanisms are being singled out, could be a reaction to the cultural pervasiveness of the US of A.

you do realise that Mumsnet is on the WORLD WIDE WEB?

think about that, world wide...

I wonder what that might suggest about the range of languages and speakers you might find there?

or are you one of those tedious people who knows nothing of how English is spoken or written outside the South-East of England and assumes your way is the best (or oldest ) way?

blueshoes you clearly don't think your aversion to textspeak is irrational, as you wrongly infer that people using an appropriate form for a particular medium are lazy and ill-educated/stupid rather than adaptable and pragmatic. Getting on your high horse about txt spk is like thinking the Beatles were dangerous because they had long hair.

man, I love how self-righteous people get when trying to defend their own little language fortress. "THIS is how English must be spoken and written, according to ME, and I am clever, clever and posh I tells you..."

I think YABU, but I'll take your Queen's English conservatism and raise you a "maybe we should all go back to speaking English the way the Americans do" Let's get rid of the extraneous e at the end of the word "axe" for example.

calm down, ski. It's all right. Just a lighthearted thread.

sure, a lighthearted snooty thread. I'm just adding a different kind of snootiness.

lol skidoodle. i hate textspeak because i find it pointlessly difficult to understand given that the whole keyboard is right in front of the poster it has no appreciable merit, but i've got to say i'm right behind you on the SE of England thing. it's ridiculous, but it's life. you should see the news here (if you're not here already) - the closer it is to the BBC tv studios in london... the more important it is.

skidoodle- you are the one that sounds unworldly. Don't get out much do you?
Text speak adaptable and pragmatic????
Do me a favour

hey hey, why the nippy attitude to skidoodle? she's only responding to this stupid and utterly ill-founded OP (oh and it was light-hearted as well, let's not forget ).

stupid and utterly ill-founded?
It's not ill -founded, it's a comment on how the English language is changing and adopting more Americanisms. I have noticed this in posts from people who have some point stated thay are from the UK.
It wasn't a dig at Americans or those not in London- now that is a stupid and ill founded thing to say.
Have you read my posts? Or just looking for a controversial stance to take?
Actually, I don't give a shit if you think I was stupid. Maybe you just didn't get what I meant.
What a bore..another row over nothing

Barf is an essential addition to our language - like, totally!

Gotten is acceptable only to those who are in the US (I may allow Canada) or who learnt English from US Americans, since that follows.

Am still quite surprised by the MOM REVELATION - I lived my entire childhood in the East Midlands without knowing this about the West!

Cominmg very late to this thread (yet again)

I think I understand what Mrs Ruffalo means. Lots of Valley Girl type talk around atm - my SIL uses this all the time

like
totally
awesome
dude

btw if you say 'mom' how do you pronounce it?

I think sun tan lotion has been dropped because healthwise it's no longer seen as desirable to get a tan iyswim. Sun screen is a better reflection of ita actual function (protection, not helping you tan).

My brummie ex used to say mom with an 'o' as in orange.