To hate Americanisms...?

[Groof]

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?

I really don't understand why this is so difficult.

A sarcastic:

'like I could care less'

means 'it is not possible for me to care less about this.

However drop the sarcasm and the 'like' from this and just the statement 'I could care less' alters the meaning to 'it is possible for me to care less'.

Adding to it, to make 'I could care less but I don't' still means 'it is possible for me to care less, but I don't, therefore I do care a little bit'.

Either use the full american 'like I could care less' with the sarcasm turned up full or the english 'I couldn't care less' flat statement.

Arsed means bothered in this context. It's got nothing to do with being askedvto do something.

Yes I think you’re right about that. Unbelievably I heard a journalist recently referring to when the King was coronated!!! I’m not saying this is an Americanism. I was just gobsmacked to hear someone using such an expression!

Huh? I haven't picked up any racism...
Are we not all just discussing the appropriate or inappropriateness of the Brits using Americanisms?

Also “Sick” for having a cold.

An American emailed to say she and her daughter had “been sick today”
I was very sympathetic as assumed vomiting..
But it was simply a cold!

I hate it when people on here say 'gotten' instead of 'got'.

Gosh. I wonder if anyone's ever felt the same.

Geez, some people want to bring “Race” into everything!
In America race seems to be a much bigger deal than in U.K.
Here, “class” is the division.

What would you say, poorly? That's a very English phrase, we'd definitely say sick for a cold here (Ireland).

I've always felt that either sounds wrong.
Surely you complete a form?

Terms like “Shop the sale” online.
A red lip.

Are these Americanisms?

Unwell?

That’s very interesting- I HAVE heard Irish people use “ Sick” for cold - A lot of Irish Heritage people in USA as well.

I would be specific “I have a stinking cold, let’s postpone”

See also - a shoe.
I sometimes watch an American lady on the dreaded fb, she is very funny usually taking the mickey out of herself for her Americanisms. But she will insist on saying she likes a red lip or a heeled boot. Just no.

Sick is pretty generic here, it doesn't imply vomiting unless you say being/getting sick. As you say, plenty of Irish emigration to the US over the centuries. I think these threads just teach us that the English spoken in England is an outlier.

I don't hate any of them. I am interested in language and I find it fascinating to notice the differences, but they don't about me except possibly where there is a possibility of a genuine misunderstanding, like the example with "sick" above. To me, to be sick means to throw up. Anything else I'd call being ill or, of it wasn't serious enough for that, not very well. But if an American person said they'd been sick I'd think hang on, they're American, better check what exactly they mean (sorry to hear that, nothing serious I hope?) I think you just have to be aware.

One I do like, is " I haven't seen (or done) that for the longest time"
First time I heard it was in the lyrics of a Billy Joel song.

Agreed. It’s a common English ignorance of their Celtic neighbours.

I agree that being on meds, sounds more like you're on prescription drugs.

I'd never say (for instance) "I take drugs daily ", as for me, that conjures up an image of a coke head 😱

I'd say 'ill' or 'unwell'. 'Sick' is definitely used to mean unwell in some contexts in England though. 'She was off sick' or 'a sick note'.

@Whydoeseveryonewanttoargue , what is UK English for bake sale?

But it still doesn't make sense that way!
And I've never heard it used as a sarcastic phrase, only ever as a straightforward statement.

But I'll be damned if I ever say obligated!
Obliged is a word I'll take to my hill to die on.

I thought ass was a reference to the fleshy bum part, and arse was the actual hole?
Sorry to be so direct 🙏🏻

I would call it a cake stall or a coffee morning, or even a baking sale (ie sale of your baking). So many Americanisms drop the ‘ing’, eg wait(ing) list, row(ing) boat, jump(ing, or ideally skipping) rope etc.