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 would use mad for angry, and I would say I'm cross when I'm angry, but not madly so, iyswim.

And I went to a High School - in the 70s.

I say Mam though, not mom or mum.

Right I am about to show how common I am I think

I use cross for angry

Very cross

then you are driving me mad which means making me well insane

I use number 3 a lot in fact sometimes with no build up of crossness

wow. what a bitchfest this thread has become!

Who would have thunk it eh cariboo???

is "cross" common?

I never knew. I say that too. And angry. And mad.

Perhaps the issue is less the words I'm choosing than the frequency with which I need to use them.

Oh, I love saying driving me mad

no please I was joking

I shall go away and try my humour? elsewhere

I am joking there to !!!!!!

Poor MrsRuf! You've defended yourself bravely & honourably, tho.

I have always called my mum mom(Worcestershire)

AW, thanks cariboo!!!

Wish they'd get with the program and stop bustin'my ass, though

I'm sure that where I come from (Leeds) "mad" is regularly used to mean "angry". "Mom" being used in the Midlands is news to me though, in Leeds a lot of people use "mam".

here in the fens a lot of people say stupid the same as in the US not schoopid like in the rest of the uk. also computer like in the US not compewter. probably where the US pronunciation came from? just a guess.

Exactly - the Brits invented a lot of these so-called Americanisms in the first place so this is really an argument about nothing.

eg: "He was gotten in drink" (Shakespeare). Apparently the past participle of got was v common in those days

Plus once heard Radio 4 programme about how the reason English is the number one language in the world is because it changes all the time, and allows other cultures to change it with new words, different grammar styles etc, and that the languages that end up dying are ones that won't change. That kinda screws the French a bit.

You can be irritated by Americanisms, I think that's okay It does make me want to start loading my posts with heavy southern US sayings though. Y'all, I'm just contrary that way, and I ain't fixin' to change.

I must be honest however, and say that I have unknowingly picked up a few British sayings that pop out of my mouth without warning. I was really annoyed by SIL the other day; dh asked me what was wrong and I hissed "SIL has just LOST THE PLOT!" He was so confused.

And I know a few of y'all seem to like our word "barf", but it ain't got nothin' on your "boak". That one's a keeper for sure.

I may be a Texan (Bush is from here, boak) but I LUUUURRRRVVVE Mumsnet. Much more than I've ever lurrrrvvved a US message board.

Another Brummmie with a "Mom".

I'd love to hear more Americanisms from the American moms on MN, especially the non-standard, non-Hollywood ones from parts of America we don't see much on telly or at the pictures.

I do hate the creeping use of Americanisms by Brits, though, and I will resist it to my last breath!!

(Picturing BananaPudding in stetson and gunbelt, leaning on the corale(sp?) fence.)

Did anyone notice on the Pitt-Jolie pregnancy thread ... underneath in the comments section, people were complaining about the word "bump"

I'm like Bananapudding. I'm an American who uses this site, because I can't find a site that is U. S. based that I like, since they all are boring, over-moderated, waaaaay to hippy-dippy for my taste, hardly used, or the worst of all: filled with people who smile, and have their own avitars, tickers, and sayings that take up more room than their postings.

I thought maybe I shouldn't use my Americanisms, but when it came down to it, if I used mum, it felt like I was trying way too hard to show that I'm part of the cool group and can fit in. I love stroppy, wanker, and the fact that piss can mean about 59 different things, but it feels odd if I use them myself.

I am American using this site, too.

Only I am also a naturalised Brit.

It's been nigh on 7 years since I set foot in the US.

I never called my mother 'Mom'. Her mother was French and her father Mexican-American.

It was always 'Mama' with the stress over the 'ma' in the first syllable.

You see, America is very large geographically, and even more so ethnically.

There are so many subtelties, so many even what you what call racial prejudices.

All within even one state.

So it's impossible to generalise.

The place where I grew up, it is America.

In the sense that an Israeli man was sent to teach us, in our local comprehensive, and we sat to hear him start his lecture.

And he said, 'I can count 7 different races here, and you are not fighting. You are just here to listen.'

Name me a place where that goes on, elsewhere?

Can one?

I wait, I tell you, for I am foreign here, and my passport is maroon. And my elder girl she doesn't look like mine. She is tall and slim and her skin is white and her eyes are green and I could never mimic her voice.

I could only do like my father and shrug and look over your shoulder or stare in the distance because that is what in Indian does and my white skin is pock-marked and my hair is grey before any Mayan's would be.