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?

Being annoyed by minor Americanisms seems a small price to pay for your language becoming the global language, being able to travel and work and consume most popular culture without ever having to learn another language

Americans have picked up loads of British lingo, it's not a one way thing

Mail instead of post.
Candy instead of chocolate.

I have six year old twins and I'm always correcting them. I blame youtube.

That's not an American thing, that's a polite thing when you don't know if everyone celebrates Christmas

I really like "gotten" as it makes sense

I also prefer "math"

I don't use them with my colleagues here as it annoys them

but when I was last in the US, I asked a waiter "please may I have..." and it started a whole conversation - apparently he loves people phrasing it that way and not many people do, according to him.

I don't think nihilism is making people happy

Thats not nihilism.

"Movies"

They're films

Another day, another warm welcome for the American users of MN.

I often wonder why they are drunk

It's the death of culture. All distinctions are being eroded. We're all going into the blender now, it's big America globohomo

What i don't like is that its not the words themselves but the fact that it reflects someone who has spent too much time on YouTube or watching US TV. A lot of kids are using these phrases now and it's from YouTube, my DS sometimes does this too.

I had a colleague who lived in US for years and spoke in her original accent but had lots of litte phrases and I thought that was lovely because it was organic. She would say 'will you come with?' Or 'hurry up already'. But when I hear this from someone who has never crossed the Atlantic it makes me mad!

Detest them all.
Why do people want to copy America? Especially when you consider the state of the place.

Ah that very authentic British English word, 'globohomo'

My young adults say "elevator" instead of "lift". I'm sure there's more - that's just off the top of my head.

Hallowe'en. Baby showers.

Flavourful rather than flavoursome. Adjectives being used as adverbs, you do things properly not proper. It took months to get DGS to say sweets rather than candy.

I think a, lot of the problem is that bec a lot of Americans don't understand English words a lot of social media creators use the American version which we also understand leading to people think that American English is the correct version.

I do think using "reach out" when you mean "talk to" or "contact" should be a criminal offence.

It's 'Merry Christmas' in America if you want to express good wishes for this particular holiday.

It's considered a faux pas to assume that everyone celebrates Christmas, however. Many celebrate Kwanzaa or Hannukkah or the winter solstice or Diwali in December/ January so it's 'Happy Holidays' if you want to make sure the person you're talking to understands that regardless of what seasonal holiday they're celebrating, you wish them well.

The word 'holiday' in the US has retained its traditional meaning - a specific day, originally a holy day. What Britons call a holiday is called a vacation in the US.

Yes, people complaining often just sound like parochial dinosaurs.

Except for 'I could care less', because that doesn't make sense.

@Groof

YABU

People also seem to assume any words they don't use are American even if they aren't, gotten and Halloween being the most obvious examples so far on the thread.

I hate the term meds, I need to pick up my meds from the pharmacy etc, I don’t know why, it just really irritates me!

Plenty of Americans also hate 'I could care less', honestly!

Cell phone, no it’s mobile.

Truck, no it’s lorry.

Hallowe'en isn't American.

It's Irish and Scottish. Emigrants brought their customs to the new world with them, and the magic of literature and TV brought them all the way back.

Birth control annoys me too. I work in an area where contraception comes up periodically and find it’s increasingly referred to in this way. It sounds so crass. It’s not controlling birth, it’s controlling conception (or attempting to at least) so contraceptive is much more appropriate.

The range of day to day vocabulary in general is decreasing. Adjectives are often limited to good, great, disgusting, awesome, ok, fine, shit, rubbish, crap etc, or just an emoji. I think it’s a shame so many descriptive words have fallen out of favour, but I suppose many of them would make the speaker sound like a bit of a pompous twat these days.

The Americanism that make my ears bleed is the loss of the adverb… ‘it felt real good’ or ‘I eat healthy’.