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?

Just asked my kids and sure enough they say can I get, I would say can I have...I'll have to get that habit out of them😊

Thank you. The usage of a verb there was most unsettling.

That is true.

Maybe we should all just agree that affect and effect are stupid words and we should just avoid using them.

Ah brilliant, mystery solved. Thank you @Garlicnorth.

I can't abide misunderstandings about the correct use of lie/lying and lay/laying.

When I see (or hear) that someone was "laying on the bed" I always want to ask if they're a hen.

"Can I get?" or "Can I have?". Both sound fine to me.
I would be more concerned about the type of person who would be seriously bothered by this.

But the OP is wrongly claiming it to be an Americanism.

I hate the phrase 'matching energy'. It just sounds so smarmy and so psuedoscientific and psychobabbly.

Me too. I've I told DH I'll divorce him if he uses draws ever again.

Oh god this. Along with a straight trouser and a smoky eye. And the aforementioned “piece” for a clothing item.

Also using 'myself' instead of 'me', e.g. "Could you send that to myself" I have never once heard of myself being used in this context. Who is doing this, really? 😬

I cringe a bit when I hear people, especially older people saying "he got The Covid" , maybe it's just irish people who say this, my own mother says it😊

Or worse. Viscous circle. Is it thick?

Irish people. Myself/yourself/himself/herself are much more versatile in hiberno English.

My neighbour religiously calls it “Covit” and it makes me cringe from the depths of my soul when she says it. I know it’s not a crime and she’s a lovely woman but it just irrationally annoys me when she does. 🫣

It’s a royal thing, @Sebsaloysius…

'Food noise' is one that's really starting to wind me up.

"The WL injections silence my food noise".

And 'reset'.

"I'm going on holiday to reset".

I go to relax because I'm not a microwave clock 😳

I don't really use them like this myself (), but I think in Ireland they're used to convey informality a lot of the time? Whereas in GB they definitely seem to be misguided attempt to be more formal.

For example, if a solicitor said "I'll get that written and then send a copy to yourself", it feels very different to me in an Irish Vs English accent. But maybe that's just in my head.

Everyone says they got the flu so they're treating covid the same. I don't think I've ever heard anyone say they got the covid but I have heard people being asked are they over the covid or similar.

"The" gets thrown in to lots of sentences in Ireland. Like asking someone how they got over the Christmas.

Is food noise a fart or burp?

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I always remember it as "affect = action (i.e. influencing something) and "effect = emotion (i.e. the impact of something)" .
I don't know if that makes sense, never mind whether or not it's grammatically correct. But it helps me!

As a side note, I'm not sure the "or not" in "whether or not" is needed, but due to the nature of this thread I am questioning every other word! 🥲

Two main ones:

Bored of - I drilled bored with into my sons!!

Subject verb disagreement as in
Son “There’s three more chocolates”
Me “Are there three more?”
Both sons “Muuum!!”

I know, I know evolving language, rich composite.

oh, and another one which gets me reaching for the baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire......decimated, when the speaker/writer clearly thinks that means totally wiped out, rather than the original roman military punishment of killing one tenth of an army that badly fucked up in battle-killing your whole army is just, er, plain daft.

"I've got mental health"

Righto, we all have, but is it poor mental health or good mental health? Knobheads.

Every time I see Tui's bloody "Live Happy" slogan, I mutter "Live Happily". I would definitely tell them that I couldn't be bloody photographed with that bloody banner because it's bloody ungrammatical!