to absolutely hate the how people are speaking English!

[exse24Londoner]

I really hate how we have "suddenly" starting gifting presents rather than giving them as we did only a couple of years ago. Vacations - when did we start having vacations instead of holidays?????? The other day I saw an advert for pants - turned out to be trousers. Apparently when I speak to someone it is now liaising & if I call or text, I am reaching out..... the other day someone was talking about the front end, or as I prefer to call it - the beginning!!🙄

Dont get me wrong, I love the evolution of language & that generations make it their own but this isn't that this is not teenagers or cultures developing own language its...... weird management/pop psychology speak

is it just me??

Absolutely, that was the first thing which occurred to me when I read the OP.

Central Lancashire born and bred and all generations of my family have said pants instead of trousers! Going back to at least my Great Grandma who was a teen in WW2

@persephonia Thanks for that background . That's interesting. And good to see it laid out like that. Really weird when Americans believe we must have affirmative action, no idea why so many think we have it..

Im in Ireland too and our school uniform list still calls them slacks 😁
Two pairs of grey slacks.
I love it 💕

I’m 65 and from Lancashire. It’s always been pants here meaning trousers.

Ah, I always think of "dropped" as in abandoned or ended.

I haven't heard that word in a long time 😁

God yes... I keep getting emails...

We (who?)
invite you (have emailed me, the invitation is implied)
to shop (or is that to buy from?)
the Spring edit (I know the words, but ...)

"Buy some of our new spring clothing range."

The Internet is making everyone speak the same, and it's dominated by Americans, hence the American language coming through.

I don't like it either.

You were right the first time. I am into music. I am not in to visitors after nine o'clock at night.

My Gran wore slacks that she wore with her derry boots for outside or with baffies inside.
Derry boots was what she called her outdoor boots.
Ne Scotland 1970s oh and teamed up with a rain mate.😁

Yes, I think that’s why I love hearing the word slacks. Or frocks.
They bring me memories of my lovely granny.

ETA I have never heard of derry boots or baffies though!

There was an EE ad on TV over Christmas.

It referred to "Guesting". 🤬

Surely that's visiting?

Of course - in my defence, I am ill and grieving.

Derry boots I'm not sure why could've been what my Gran named them.
Her baffies were her zip up the front slippers.

We're exposed to American English much more than we used to be - films,TV etc. And America has huge reach and influence. I don't think we can stop it, even if we'd like to.

I’ve been getting young women asking me for “birth control”.

Definitely an Americanism. It’s a new phenomenon and I can only assume it’s come via TikTok.

I don’t mind some Americanisms creeping into the English language, but I do take issue with pretentious flexing of it. “I sourced my new lamp in a quaint town in Cornwall” - oh fuck offffff, you found it in a shop whilst you were on holiday.

As well as various Americanisms, I hate “We was doing” and “I done”, which seem to be becoming more prevalent everywhere!

In Boux Avenue they have signs advising that if you buy a bra you get a free ‘knicker’.

’The dual’ is a funny and special little bit of our language:

A pair of glasses/ spectacles
A pair of trousers
A pair of knickers
A pair of scissors

I’d be sad if we lost it.

My Cork granny used to say we had lovely frocks on us. And she called her trousers slacks. And she and my mum used to say if you got a new coat or dress ‘wish you health to wear them’.

I use YouTube quite a bit (exercise vids) and all the adverts seem to be in American accents. Some of them are really annoying too.

I agree about 'reaching out' instead of 'contacting'. I picture someone leaning across.

My village shows films every Monday night. It used to be called Film Club. I've no idea why they've changed the name to Move Club.

My pet peeve is adding 'a' into sentences like:

"I love a green skirt"
"I really like a nice-fitting jean"

A colleague was talking about how they preferred their burger plain from a certain fast food place and another colleague, who orders with all the trimmings, added
"I love a gherkin."

Why the overuse of 'a' all of a sudden? It sounds so wrong!

I’m more bothered by phrases like “I was today years old” and “tell me xxx without telling me xxx”.

You thought wrong. Culpable homicide has been a crime in Scots law for hundreds of years.

Some "Americanisms" make more sense than their English equivalents. I think that the paved strip for pedestrians is called a "pavement" in England. The American word is "sidewalk" ... a better term, in my opinion.

When my wife died, and I was spreading the news among my neighbours, the word "died" seemed a bit too harsh, and I switched to using the expression "passed away", which almost seems to imply life after death. Now, years later, I've switched back to using the word "died".

In coffee shops, I switch between "can I get" and "can I have". To my ears, "can I have a slice of cake" sounds like a child asking Mummy.