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?

Look up the dictionary definition of "get." One if its meanings is "receive."

One that irritates me when I come across it is the mispronounciation of words using wort. Such as St John's Wort. Or liverwort, milkwort, squinanceywort, figwort or any number of botanical names for 'erbs. Like word, world, work, worth, worm, worse, wort has properly an 'er' sound, not a rhyme with wart. In Old English it was written wyrt, so the sound is obvious. The only word without an 'er' sound in that family is worn. The worst (note!) offender is a botanist and herbalist from, I think, Singapore. I saw a programme in which he talked to a botanist in a field about St John's Wort, and she discussed it using the correct pronounciation, and he adopted it as well, having in his lab called wart. Back in his lab, as he spoke about it, step by step it slid back from wort to wart. I have asked an American friend from California about this, and he said wart was the usual over there.
The other plant names over here usually tell you what it was used for. Lungwort for breathing problems, figwort for piles. Don't try this at home, folks.

Nope. Arse has the same meaning as ass. Hence you also have arsehole and asshole. British people saying ass or asshole sound silly.

Although there is an older usage of ass as in donkey used as an insult. So you might find 1950s schoolboy stories where they call each other an ass but it is entirely to do with the animal and nothing to do with derrières at all.

I have no idea. I would at bake sale.

Exactly right. So it is used correctly and is polite. Seems like the lack of manners were on challenging a customer because you didn’t like the way they asked for something.

As someone who spent years living in Texas, and worked even longer with Americans , I find a lot of these comments really churlish, and at times, inaccurate

For example, early on the thread, someone says that ‘negative’ should be ‘minus’.. That’s not how I was taught in Scotland in Maths & Physics - it was always ‘ negative’

’ can I get’ was always ‘may I have’, not ‘could I get’ .

Now, I am not saying I am right, simply that it’s not black & white. As such, I think all y’all should be open to the rich variety that is the global English language.

Indeed. 'What did you get for Christmas?' does not mean you went and fetched it from the shop yourself.

@UndergroundOvergroundWomblingFreeby misuse of reflexive pronouns is pretension with errors. Like other types of corporate-speak it may have become common across the pond at an earlier point, but I don't think that makes it an Americanism...

Ah, sorry, just told half the story as was rushing last night. Context and body language may help...

So, it would be early evening, the bar would be very quiet, and these American guys with Big Dick Energy would swagger in and without acknowledging me or my co-workers or making eye contact, and barely pausing in their conversation with their mate, would just announce loudly "I'll get a Jack n Coke". Or sometimes, just say "Jack N Coke". They were very rude!

As a Brit I was much more accustomed to customers (predominantly Brits on holiday) making eye contact, smiling, then asking for a drink using please and/or thank you!

I've recently noticed Brits in England ordering food and drink by saying "Can I get?" Or "I'll get" and as long as they say please I've no issue with it.

We have several styles of macaroni and cheese in the US. They include the roux-based one you refer to, but we also have a custard-based one that is favored in the South and with African American families. There is also the boxed Kraft one, but that is a category all its own.

As someone who spent years living in Texas, and worked even longer with Americans , I find a lot of these comments really churlish, and at times, inaccurate

There is a bit of Violet Crawley "What is a weekend?" energy on this thread😂

Americans use both. A mall is enclosed. An outdoor aggregation of shops would generally be called a shopping center.

As a Brit I was much more accustomed to customers (predominantly Brits on holiday) making eye contact, smiling, then asking for a drink using please and/or thank you!

Okay, that’s quite different to what you said earlier when you did describe them asking for a drink, even though they unfortunately didn’t say please.
Rude customers are very trying😕

Take no notice of posters, gotten is old English and has been said by Queen Elizabeth 11 and Maggie Smith, it's perfectly acceptable. It just fell out of usage. Posters on here declare Halloween American and go on the baby name forum to spot the racism and lack of worldly knowledge.

Store etc again just fell out of use. It isn't just used in the US, but also across the English speaking world. The English transported all these words to the US.

I'm not bothered about Americanism because I find language interesting. But I'd be sad if any of the words used on either side died out.

Oftentimes used to get me

I know we have moved on from the "soda" discussion, but here is an article, complete with map, that shows regional differences in how we Americans refer to carbonated beverages. I would add that the most important distinction is to distinguish from alcoholic beverages, so sometimes the term "soft drink" is used as well.

https://www.businessinsider.com/soda-pop-coke-map-2018-10

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

*shag
*ginger
*flat (for apartment)
*fringe (for bangs)

All in common use.

Why shouldn’t (some) British people be as small minded and racist as (some) French people? What a question.

However, I don’t it’s equivalent to the French rejection of foreign words (though I think that’s small minded too) since as my post that you responded to pointed out many Americanisms that people are complaining about are British. We just haven’t used them for a while.

Almost no one has discussed the appropriateness or otherwise of using words that are more common in America than England. The thread title makes it clear this is simply about hating things being used in Britain because they associate them more with America.

Anglicisms are just as bad.

It's true that some British terms have crossed the pond. "Bonkers," "bespoke," "fancy' (for liking something), "gobsmacked," and "shag" are some examples.

As long as we don't start saying "uni" for university and "I was sat," it's fine with me.

North American and been in thr Uk for 20+ years and have never used any of these.

I've never heard any of these in the US. Shag maybe a bit - and it sometimes appears as a clue in the NYT crossword. I told my hairdresser recently about the fringe for bangs thing - no one in the salon had ever heard of it.

I agree. I have heard shag, but none of the others with their British meaning.

Ginger is a nickname for Virginia in the US. I've never heard it used to refer to a redhead.