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??

I hate the way the verb to take has all but vanished. It seems to have been replaced by bring, for some reason

The one that is annoying me currently is 'shook' as in, I was watching the news and I was shook. Someone on Traitors said shooketh, as in I was watching the news and I was shooketh.

The over use of 'National Treasure' when referring to a celebrity. Not every celebrity is a National Treasure.

And cop/s instead of police.

Our daughter is 16 and I do correct her when she uses words like trash or parking lot.

Language can lead to interesting discussions, my daughter and I have just moved to Scotland. The doctor referred us to to have our 'jags' (vaccinations) and we discussed the origins of the word. We went to the vaccination centre to have our jags.

My husband writes/edits for a living (not a journalist) and he spends so much time correcting words/sentences, sometimes he thinks it is him that is wrong as the same errors keep appearing. The company insists that English is used, not American English and they do not want slang/shortened words to appear in any written documents/website.

How odd.

I'd much prefer my teens (and I) had friends who used Americanisms than ones who would - with the encouragement of their parents, I think? - make fun of them and do impressions behind their backs.

I just hope we do not take on Legos 😧as regular use here

Gifted is annoying and the worse is pop being over used. Pop of colour, pop over blouse can't think of any others but that is enough to keep my blood boiling

Do you mean birth control as in contraception? That was the term used back in the 1980s. I definitely heard of birth control before I ever heard the phrase contraception. How old are you ?

You don't understand the full meaning of the word "get." There is nothing wrong with "can I get" unless you want to quibble with the can/may distinction, which will probably be gone in a few years anyway. Get means "come to have or hold (something); receive."It does not have some sort of built in reflexive. To ask someone "can I get" can mean "can I receive".

In the US, "homicide" generally means killing of someone by another person. Homicide does not equate with murder; in fact, depending on legal definitions that vary by state, there are lawful (often referred to as "justifiable") homicides, such as a killing in self-defense.

Not odd at all as it is a trendy affectation and sounds a bit ridiculous in the accents my DC and their friends have. Equally, the joke is between themselves, it's funny because they aren't American. If they were American it would obviously not be funny. Believe or not we aren't all comfortable with becoming the 51st state!

At least we Americans don't say "I was sat" or "I am stood" and their ilk. This usage seems to be ubiquitous now in British English.

Yes, birth control as in contraception. I’m quite old and have been doing this job donkeys years, so know it’s a recent thing to be asked for birth control by young women (and with that I mean teens and early to mid twenties) as opposed to “I want to go on the pill” or “I’d like to talk about contraception” or “I want something to stop me getting pregnant” which is what I’ve been hearing for the last 25 years…

Even my own daughter does it, and when I asked her why she said that’s what all the TikTokers refer to it as.

Yes, I agree, I grew up in London and it was "on the pill".

Mom it’s MUM, cell phone - it’s a mobile! Vacation - no it’s a holiday. Pants no trousers, pants are your underwear. Zucchini no it’s a courgette. Eggplant - ugh, it’s an aubergine

but the one that is currently winding me up is Mom!!!!

Ugh what annoys me most if the sating t's as d'd for exmaple, "wadder" in stead of water and "pardy" instea dof party. I think social media has excellerated the americanisation of english over here. Another that I find annoying is young mums are now "mama" instead od "mummy" 😖. And dont get me started on the peigeon fake jamaian accent that now domimates london and Surrey.

Tell her she’s nothin’ but a yeller coyote!

My pet hate is people saying 'Can I get....' when asking for something in a cafe or coffee shop etc. No you can't get! The person serving you will get it,you say 'Can I have'. This seems to be a reasonably new phenomenon,I've only noticed it in the last couple of years. I thought it was only younger people at first but there are a lot of older people, even ones around my age (62) doing it. I mentioned it to a friend of mine a few months ago and he said 'Oh yes,that annoys me too'. Then when we were in a coffee shop a few days later he said 'Can I get' when he was being served!

I also don't get the expression 'I could care less'. I always thought it was 'I couldn't care less'.

And don't get me started on people saying 'cell phone'. It's a bloody mobile phone!

I think people normally just say phone now - I don't really hear cell or mobile these days.

I can get it if the barista gives it to me.

Look up the meaning of "get."

If I say to the barista at Starbucks, "can I get . . .", it doesn't mean that I expect them to let me take a flying leap over the counter and make it myself.

’To get’ means ‘to receive’ in this context.
’Can I receive a coffee please?’

In the same way someone might say something like ‘I got a lovely present from DH for my birthday’.

Just to be even more of a pendant...'can I have...' should be 'may I have...'.

You're welcome. 😁

(I don't care in practice and may even say 'can I get....' ..but I always say please and thank you (.

@Bowies Yes I feel the same about " you guys" when there is one or more females in the group that's being addressed.. But I've got a feeling young/ er people ( than me) perhaps don't care as much. And if it's a group of women and no men that's being referred to, I don't know what's an acceptable term now.

Can I say " see you tomorrow, ladies " or is that now so old -fashioned that you just don't use any word for the people? Is it just " see you tomorrow"? Or " see you tomorrow folk" ? Gawd knows. Problems, problems .

And lip, as in "sporting a red lip"!

Language evolves and it irritates those that are slightly older, that's just life, the one I am v sad about though is the decline of Father Christmas and rise of Santa Claus, really noticeable over the last few years 😢

Our ancestors all said "gotten". The people on the "Mayflower" carried on using the term and we didn't, that's all. They also carried on sounding the "r" in speech and we didn't. There are many other English words which have fallen out of use in this country but are still in use over the pond. So Americanisms are closer to our ancestral speech in some ways. They are not "wrong" just different to our modern (English) ears.