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??

Similar topic and I'll get flamed for this but.. I hate it when Southern-accented professional presenters (even on the BBC) say

Mon-dee
Tues-dee
Wednes-dee

I held a grudge towards my English teacher for five years after she scrawled in red pen to correct every one of my various descriptions of the sounds a cat made with 'mew'.

She had clearly never met a cat, but dared to suggest that all sounds made by one would be identical to those made by a newborn-4 week old kitten or one at Death's door in the aftermath of a hurricane.

Then she marked me down because I hadn't used sufficient onomatopoeic words (although she termed it '++ expression. Describe!!').

I'd happily see the end of extraneous commas and exclamation marks in business writing, however. If I wanted to feel like I was being spoken to by a 13 year old girl, I'd go and speak to one.

hilarious

Pants here in West Lancs!

Bizarre isn’t it? I prefer my tea with just a splash of milk 😅

P & D kecks where I’m from! 💖😹

I work globally, and vacation is far more widely understood than holiday. When many people are speaking English as a second language, international usage matters more than local norms.

That’s the reality of English as a global language now.

Yes. We are suddenly ‘envisioning’ instead of envisaging, we find things ‘comfy’ where before they were comfortable, we are ‘grabbing’ instead of merely having.

Where I live in Ireland, there's a plural for pants... pantses, (not 100% sure what the spelling would be).😁

Hair Instagram/tik tok seems to have replaced a good old fashioned fringe with 'bangs'. Drives me mad.

For years growing up I would read/hear the word bangs and imagine it was some incredibly sophisticated/strange American hairstyle. I was so disappointed when I found out it was literally just a fringe. But fringe makes the most sense.

I’m in Cumbria and only posh folk say trousers……..

‘Prepping’ makes me seethe, but “you guys” (directed to me as a woman) makes me want to hit someone, so YANBU (or I am too).

Elevators have crept in now, so it likely won’t be long before we have side walks.
Americanisations.

Super was around a lot in England in the sixties, along with fab and others of that era of Beatles and Carnaby Street fashion and the vital pop industry. It seems to have had a resurgence just recently and I suspect but do not know, that it may have come back via America from being used in a commercial context, e.g. super size (-sized) goods. Or perhaps even people!

I was taught at school to never say ‘got’ at all. It’s actually quite a meaningless word, which can easily be left out of a sentence.

It's also Scottish.

Lots of people don't use past tense to describe events from the past. For example:

the man stands up, walks to the stage and sings a song.

Instead of:

the man stood up, walked to the stage and sang a song.

Came here to say the same. Absolutely winds me up and I'm not really that precious. They have an ing ending not ink!!!! Even those who I thought had a better grasp of the English language pronounce these words that way 😭😭😭

I agree - I detest the use of the word ‘envision’.
Don’t get me started on ‘grabbing’ either. It sounds awful.
Ditto ‘can I get’. I much prefer ‘may I have’

Agree “Can I get” - can get to fuck! Rude and entitled sounding.

“May I have” …

Or just “A cappuccino, please”

A lot of news is poorly written and full of errors due to dim witted over reliance on AI.

The one that drives me absolutely bonkers is ‘step foot in’, it doesn’t even make sense!

Or in fashion it's a 'colourway' instead of just.... a colour.

I hate bangs, too, and wedding ‘band’ instead of ring - it always used to be a wedding ring!

When I’m a dictator, anyone saying either of those will be thrown into a rat infested dungeon for a week. That’ll larn ‘em!

And what is 'fumming' instead of 'fuming'? Don't people realise it is wrong?