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??

Yes there is.

Are they asking for birth control pills and you expect them to call them the pill? Or are they asking for birth control and want advice on which type to use? They were called birth control pills when they were introduced in the 60's and when I was a teen (in the 80's). Again that must be regional.
I agree that gotten has always been in use. As were pants, the go to. My Mum would also say trews. We don't use paving stones anymore, so sidewalk makes more sense. Elevator sounds better. Candy meant sugar, as in Candied peel, we took the word to the US and then we changed our word for Candy, to sweets, taken from sweet meats. If people want to change it back, they can do.

Don't watch classic coronation street, there was a lot of 'I'll never step foot in your house/pub/shop' again. Or 'mark my words, he won't step foot in this house agen'. It's a very Northern saying.

I like gherking.

Shame about your post title.

I also hate Americanisms. One of the most annoying is “co-worker” - no one seems to say colleague any more.
The rise of influencers has a lot to answer for - my teenage daughter and her friends talk about “drug store” make up and “blush” - it’s blusher!! Also “a couple hours” - seems we’re missing out the word “of” now.

Co-worker is way better than the ridiculous usage of colleague in shops. No, the person working in the shop is not my colleague. If you suggest I speak to a colleague I need to leave the shop and go to where I work. Colleague is not a synonym for worker/employee/shop assistant etc.

That’s an unusual context for the word colleague and not the more general context that I was talking about, but I’m sure you know that. When people talk about their colleagues, they mean their own people at their own workplace. You know, the people they now refer to as co-workers.

Yes I know. And I was pointing out the current, and extremely common, incorrect usage of colleague.

I simply thought it was a little ironic that the term colleague has been replaced with co-worker and that employee/assistant has been replaced with colleague.

I don’t think that’s a new thing: I remember my grandad, born 125 years ago, referring to his car as “she”. Although I can’t say I like it.
And as for “ get” and “gotten”, I think those are root words, historically used in words such as forgotten and begotten, but their current usage is a fairly new phenomenon.
My personal hates are those corporate sounding words and phrases used to make the speaker feel slightly superior to their audience - like “ you can report back to myself “ .
The frequent use of “ yourself “ on Traitors recently annoyed me , as in “ I’m sorry, I voted for yourself, Jade”. What’s wrong with “me” or “ you”?

I hear you. My absolute pet peeves though are (A) the now near-dominance of “I/he/she was sat” vs “sitting”. As well as having to restrain myself when I hear it in person, I’ve seen and heard it more and more on the BBC and in broadsheets. Do they not have editors nowadays? (B) haitch vs aitch. When did that become so ubiquitous?

Often it’s not co-worker but coworker, which always makes me think of bovines

No, you carry on, as long as you attach a gif to each one!!

This! We all call trousers, pants around these parts.

YANBU. I just leave their daft language up to them and continue speaking properly, slight eyebrow arch permitting!

Get a grip woman

I found my people 😂

Another one is using "yourself", "myself" and "I" incorrectly, Traitors' round tables full of 20-30 yos who can't speak properly sent shivers down my spine!

But it’s haitch in Ireland?

That's set foot. A perfectly reasonable and old phrase I suspect that poster has no objection to. It's the modern mis-use of it as step foot that is irritating.

That's probably because too many of us have endured unnecessarily lengthy morning meetings where the 5th middle undermanager of the day has introduced the 9th totally inconsequential and needlessly awkward change to procedures since Tuesday afternoon and commenced a lecture about standing up and smiling on the telephone because everybody will be able to tell you're happy with your employer that way with 'Good morning, Colleagues'.

We are not in the staff room of the nearest ASDA, Richard. A simple 'Good morning' or, even better, a 'No, nothing to add' would suffice.

What's checking her spaghetti bolognese got to do with anything?

IHA!

(I Hate Acronyms!)

There are more SPAG errors in your post. You can’t blame it all on not proof-reading.

Never understood the vehement towards Americanised English. I have a colleague who gets irrationally angry when students use it in essays but I honestly COULD care less 😉

Their English often makes far more sense than ours and we should accept that. Not all of it but certain words just do to me.

It’s annoying when Microsoft Word etc defaults to American English, because the spell checker then insists that all my British spellings are errors.

I could care less certainly isn't an example of one that makes more sense.

Pissed for annoyed makes just as much sense as pissed for drunk but as it already has a specific meaning of drunk it's really annoying when people use it here to mean annoyed.