To hate Americanisms...?

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I think maybe because it feels like all English-speaking cultures are becoming boring and homogenous.

New ones I've noticed that people in the UK didn't routinely say five years ago but are now EVERYWHERE:

• birth control (instead of 'contraception' or 'the pill')
• wait list (instead of waiting list)
• reach out

Which ones do you hate or AIBU?

@WashingDryingForEver

Then I hope no one ever says "You done amazing " 🥴😂. Very popular where I live.

The third season of the year is autumn. The Fall refers to a post-punk band that were led by Mark E Smith and his granny on the bongos (or whoever was in the band that week).

Adding extra bits to make nouns when a perfectly satisfactory noun already exists, eg expiration date.

I'm American and I hate this as well. I'm in a home decorating group on Facebook with many women from the Southern US and they use that often. I'm in the Northeast and we do not. Most commonly, I see the phrase "I am wanting" in lieu of I want. Example, I am wanting a new sofa. Wanting means a lack there of, not a desire! Words have meaning and it's annoying

This has become ubiquitous "influencer" lingo - "What I am loving right now", etc.

I am a New Englander currently in the South and, while I love regional phrases and dialects when spoken by the locals, I roll my eyes when a word like "ya'll" starts getting thrown around by "Northerners"😂

You used to be able to tell what part of the US a person hailed from by what they called a sandwich: hoagie, sub, grinder, etc. But even that's no longer a reliable indicator, is it? I really love regional phrases/slang!

I've been reading through waiting for that one. Drives me up the wall when shops apply it to British macaroni cheese, which is not the same, cooked macaroni in a roux based cheese sauce. The American one is worth looking up, more interesting, and out of the Soul Food style of cooking, but I stick to my mother's sort. In the history, it seems that the dish started my style, crossed the pond, and changed, like some of the vocabulary has. Recipes evolve, too.

I live it a country where they learn US English as standard. My DD has now started saying Oh my God like Janice from friends.

Pet hates are:
Parking lot (car park)
Fire truck (fire engine)
Trash (rubbish)
Pants (trousers)
Line (queue)
Gas (petrol)
Pacifier (dummy)
Candy (sweets)

I could go on…..

One thing that irritates me is when an American criticises a British historical author for using the word corn incorrectly. The last one claimed that the word was not known over here until the 16th century. It was. of course, Old English, and was, and was used in my childhood still, for all grain crops, wheat, barley, oats and rye, and possibly emmer and spelt. I remember crouching in the little house made by a stook of sheaves during harvest. I was very puzzled that the corn in Oklahoma was as high as an elephant's eye, despite the film conveniently including a backdrop of maize.
It was also used of grains of salt and, I found recently in Dorothy Dunnett, gunpowder as grains. Hence corned beef - salted not exploded.

So ‘I could care less but I don’t’? Therefore I do care? That seems to be how it parses?

"periodically" 😅

These regional differences will be shrinking year on year

Oooh... I know.
It just sounds so WRONG ... like the speaker became lazy, and couldn't be bothered to pronounce the H.,,
Yet, we don't pronounce the H in Hour !!

@Treaclewell - and peppercorns.

Isn't happy holidays now used because it's more inclusive of all beliefs?

It just sounds so WRONG ... like the speaker became lazy, and couldn't be bothered to pronounce the H.,,
Yet, we don't pronounce the H in Hour !!

I think it's more that it sounds like trying to pronounce it the French way, so it sounds pretentious cf saying 'an (h)otel' rather than 'a hotel'.

Cool, I'd love to hear from Americans who can say they use British isms.... or if they use British pronunciations...

Mall instead of shopping centre

GOTTEN. just awful it’s got or forgotten.

Definitely a Britishism. When I lived in the States it was commonly referred to as a railroad station.

I don't think I've ever heard of a reference to a 'chocolate chip biscuit' either. Cookie is the common parlance. In the US I knew them as tollhouse cookies.

As for 'gotten' - pure British and in use since the 4C (and in Shakespeare). A good few of our British anachronisms were transplanted over the Atlantic and subsequently lost here (e.g. 'turnpike', which is still in common use there but I never hear referred to in Blighty).

I find language and its evolution endlessly fascinating. As to the 'erosion' of British culture, that's impossible, as it's always been in constant flux (check out the number of our own lingustic borrowings from French, for example).

We've never been a monoculture.

I think I'm actually losing my mind.

This thread has helped me feel less alone.

What about 'begotten'?

YANBU to find it a bit irritating. Adopting words from other languages and countries has been the norm for hundreds, probably thousands of years though. There's really no point in getting worked up about it.

Or ill-gotten (gains).

Or just accepting that there is more than one correct way to speak the bloody language, that would be good too.

"I can't be arsed"...
Not sure WHERE that came from.
When I first heard it (not read it) it sounded to me like
"I can't be asked"... which to me makes more sense, coz if I didn't want to do something, I'd rather someone didn't ask me to do that something...

Adopting words from other languages and countries has been the norm for hundreds, probably thousands of years though.

Adopting words and inventing new ones... language evolves!