It's ARSE! 🇬🇧

[BlowDryRat]

Unless you're American, in which case it's "ass".

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I hate the ‘language evolves’ and ‘do you hate Americans’ argument. British English is part of our cultural identity. If this was any other nation with any other language there would be no argument.
Yes language evolves but this is not evolution, it’s a take over.

Unless you're Irish, in which case it's fillum.

Also in Norfolk!

I’m exactly the same age as you. People watched a lot of American TV in the eighties too. I disagree that it has consistently been a word used in Scotland. No way on Earth would my grannies have used it.

English don't use gotten I'm in Scotland we use it often it's In our vocabulary. You really need to do your research before you spout on the Internet and not talk out of your arse!

Or just be actually Scottish? You really need to read the thread before you start being so rude.

To be perfectly honest I’d have been willing to listen to the pp who said that some people in Scotland say “gotten” but I was distinctly bored by the typical leap straight to “oh so Scotland isn’t Britain then eh?” chippy nationalist type response that assumes everyone posting is an ignorant English person. It gives Scots a bad name.

I am first to leap in to correct anyone who suggests that Halloween is an American import when it was us who took it to America. But I do so courteously. It’s not their fault they don’t know that.

I agree wholeheartedly with “obligated”. I’m a lawyer and find junior people use it in drafting all the time. Red pen time!

My other pet hate is “license” as the noun and “driver’s license” in particular.Cheers for that Olivia Rodrigo. It’s a “driving licence” in the UK.

License (noun) is everywhere, look at all the threads where people ask about whether or not they need a TV license- that most British of concepts and yet American spelling used without a second thought. It’s depressing.

“Practicing” is another one.

Cheers for that Olivia Rodrigo. It’s a “driving licence” in the UK.

Well, she is American and it's highly likely she recorded the song in the US so it's hardly surprising that the American phrasing and spelling was used!

English people do use it! I must be posting in invisible font.

It’s also “organise”, “recognise” etc not “organize”, “recognize”. I’m so fed up of one of my colleagues constantly amending my perfectly correct spellings (we’re both British and working in the UK so no excuse).

I'm English and use gotten 🤷

My mum always used to 'correct' people who wished her Merry Christmas

We aren't in bloody America you know! It's HAPPY CHRISTMAS you heathen 😂

It’s always been Merry Christmas here. It was good enough for Dickens, who was English!

Also you can’t wish someone a Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year! That would just be wrong if arguably more accurate

It is merry Christmas 🎄

Pissed OFF not Pissed

Couldn't not Could Care Less

How do you say things like it's gotten very hot then?

Or Filum if you're a Geordie or Irish

It’s got very hot.

Sweets not candy

Durr obviously. The point is that her American song became popular here.

T shirt not shirt (my kids say this and it annoys me!)

Actually, it's filum. 😉

It's shit not shitty

It’s hardly the fault of Americans that English youngsters are appropriating our version of English.