To ask you which other '-isms' you find really grating....

[Sebsaloysius]

Following on in the spirit of the "I could care less" post earlier, what other new age/adopted phrases make your ears burn? Unfortunately, I'm adding to the USA pile on (although they likely could care less) as I'm pretty sure they are responsible for my own pet hate.

When ordering food at a cafe, restaurant, bar or anywhere in fact, when and why did we lose "Can I have" or "I'd like to order" to "Can I get"??

Only the other week did I overhear an elderly, well-spoken lady in a deli queue drawl "Can I get a pear and Shropshire Blue sourdough loaf". I wanted to tell her that she had no right to that beautifully crafted, quintessentially British artesan bread by asking for it in such a manner, and push her out of the door to reinforce the point (I didn't, before the MN police come at me).

I also find "sorry not sorry" vile. Not only are you 'not sorry', you're now also a dismissive cockwomble, so I like you even less than I did 5 seconds ago.

What are yours?

Outage.

I've had episodes of binge eating/bulimia in the past. I do very much understand disordered eating. It's just not a useful term IMO.

People not knowing the difference between bald and bold <hard stare at sibling>

I find it useful, and extremely accurate. When it’s stopped by something like a drug, it’s as if some all-consuming eternal sound in your head is switched off, like you’ve suddenly been cured of tinnitus or something.

You've misunderstood the term though. It may or not be a useful phrase but it doesn't mean hungry.

Argh, oh no @LAK89 !! 😱😱😱

Where I am people pronounce the two the same, I correct my children so that there is a distinction as I hate the local pronunciation of bald.

"Gotten" is old English and not actually an Americanism.

Ooooo you’d hate Australia 😂 I don’t think anyone has used the word “vegetable” since 1879. Only posh c’s say “vegetable” over ‘ere mate.

Fur babies, drives me mad.

'I was gifted xyz...'. No you weren't, you pretentious git. Someone gave you something and if you continue on with that 'gifted' carry on they'll take it back and give it to someone else!

Along with parenting, birthing and all the other neologisms in the same vein!

On the weekend - ugh - it's AT the weekend

Something that grinds my gears is “excited for” as in excited for a holiday. No,you’re excited about it.

Argh yes!

I went as a carer to a lady once, and someone had written a guide to looking after her.

I felt compelled to go through it and correct every mention of "on an evening".

Obviously it should have been "of an evening"...

“Different to” is also incorrect - you are making a distinction between two things that are not the same, so you are effectively “pushing them apart”, linguistically. It is always only ever “different from”. You would use “to” if you were pushing them together, as in “similar to”.

Indeed! I think "different to" is probably a lost cause, but it's preferable to "different than"!

Haha tbh it wouldn't bother me in Australia, abbreviations go with the territory!

But not in Blighty, good heavens.

I can't stand it when people use "super" to mean "very".

For example:

I'm super excited about my new phone.