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?

Flashlight - it's a torch!
Backpack - rucksack
Santa Claus- Father Christmas(this is important!)
No doubt loads more - I should not have let DC watch Dora the explorer!
I think DC are influenced by American TV/media

Santa Claus- Father Christmas(this is important!)

It's always been Santa Claus in Scotland (and always will be)

Same in Ireland, or Santy.

Can l get, may l have, can l have, all OK by me. Just don’t say panties ⛔️🙉

Yes.

Good thanks instead of fine thank you or someone asks “Would you like so and so.” Person replies “No I’m good.”

Also date night

‘Obligated’ (instead of ‘obliged’) is sneaking in everywhere. When I’m a dictator, using that word on this side of the pond will be just one of the many offences that will land an unwary Brit in a rat-infested dungeon for a fortnight.

Any waiter/waitress addressing a mixed group of obvious retirees as ‘you guys’ had better watch out, too. 😈

'Sick to my stomach'
'Threw up in my mouth'

You vomit from your stomach ( anti peristaltic action) and it arrives in your mouth. It doesn't originate there.

Why not just say 'I felt sick' or ' I was so distressed I vomited?'

Over use of 'impacted' rather than ' affected'
Hear it so often now.

Everything is a "journey" or has a "narrative" - don't know if these are Americanisms

This trope was used a lot on the BBC...particularly the documentaries on BBC Four

A whole bunch of....
My kids text me 'imma' as in 'I'm going to'
They use it as slang.

What I find more irritating is using
'brought' instead of 'bought' .
The use of 'myself' as in 'Myself and hubbie..'

At least American expressions are a result of cultural shifts. Myself and brought is just horrendous English.

These are metaphors which have been widely used for many years. Nowadays they tend to be somewhat overused for quite trivial things.

I first noticed this use of ‘myself’ after moving to the UK from America. I don’t think it is an Americanism. It sounds very wrong to my ear, also.

Me too. Another thing I've notice is the increasing use of invite for an invitation.

The one phrase I have not heard in the UK...he/she's not all that and a bag of potato chips which is certainly colourful/colorful. I've been in the UK for twenty years. That one must have developed when I was not living in the States anymore.

I think a lot of things like using myself for me are when people think it makes them sound more intelligent

I never heard that before, anywhere. I like it!

The above was for @BeAzureAnt

Gotten
It gives me the rage!

It is an excellent saying. I'm curious now where in the USA this came from.

Sick to my stomach is one I was familiar with in Dublin decades ago.

I threw up in my mouth isn't meant as a literal report of vomiting. It means you were sickened or disgusted or revolted to a degree. It's just colourful language.

But lots of British English hasn't evolved over the centuries either.

A great deal of usage has developed in American English since colonial times, but certain people here think it's horrible, unevolved, and second rate when it makes its way into British English.

You might want to read the thread. It might not help you to love 'gotten' but at it could stop you blaming America for your rage.

Don't move any further north. It's pretty common in certain areas of the UK, and not because it has been imported from the US....

I think we’ve established on this thread that “gotten” is more Shakespearean than American. Unless the man himself travelled further than reported.