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[BlowDryRat]

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

About the same time as ‘based on’ became ‘based off’.

Another one that hates all the Americanisms taking over. DS will say he wants a shirt he's seen, "Why? You never go anywhere to wear a shirt? Oh, you mean T-shirt?"
also he collects "pins" which I can't use for my sewing because they're actually badges.
Another spelling I've noticed more and more that irrationally irritates me is pajamas. As well as Center, color and favorite. I usually say "I didn't realise you were American?" 🙈

What about the Greek government who recently said that a certain percentage of music played in Greek hotels had to be Greek? Xenophobic too?

Im not sure I’d call it xenophobic but it’s a completely ridiculous rule assuming it’s true.

Can I get" when someone ordering food or drink in a cafe. Yeah sure, come round and get it but it's fine, I'm paid to help you

If someone asks you “what did you get for your birthday?” I hope you smugly tell them you got nothing as other people gave them to you. What is it you think get means exactly?

Isn't it Hello? I am sure I was told that Hi was American.

On both sides of the pond, we can thank an American (Thomas Edison) for "hello" as a casual greeting. Its usage before the invention of the telephone was primarily for catching someone's attention from a distance. Alexander Graham Bell wanted "ahoy," but Edison preferred "hello," and that won the day. From telephone usage, it became a casual greeting for in-person encounters as well.

I'm from the American South. "Hey" is used here just as often or even more often than "hi."

If we're going to pick up a new phone greeting from anywhere then I vote for Japan where they say moshi moshi.

That is fascinating!

I have just remembered there was a Call the Midwife episode where someone was told off for saying hello and the phrase to say was Good Morning!

I have just remembered there was a Call the Midwife episode where someone was told off for saying hello and the phrase to say was Good Morning!

Supposedly a greeting that mentioned the time of day was rejected by Bell and Edison and others in anticipation of calls across different time zones. I assume that was not a huge concern in Poplar in the 1950s.

It is true. I don’t think it’s a ridiculous rule at all. The Greek government is concerned about Greece losing its cultural identity. Ensuring that a certain amount of music has the language or is Greek in origin is fairly easy to do.

Love this, especially the image of people picking up the phone and saying “Ahoy!”

Ditto to ‘pissed’ when they mean ‘pissed off’!

When I’m a dictator it will mean a statutory fortnight in a rat-infested dungeon. 😈
Non-Brits excepted of course.

Yet another reminder (if it were needed) that the US and UK are very very different places and what works in one, may not work in the other.

That's a good thing (that non-Brits are excepted); otherwise you would need to say "two weeks" for Americans to understand you.

Ha DS doesn’t watch any American tv? I’ve heard it all now.

One reason I was a fan of Peppa Pig for Gdcs (aside from the fact of some P&Q) was that they ‘talked proper’!

‘Hiya’ used to be - maybe still is - common in various parts of the UK.

My mum used to tell me off so saying hiya - she considered it common.

Whatto is much more suitable.

Looking to do something is one of my pet hates. No idea what continent that came from. Surely they mean planning on ?

Or is it planning to?

Another one for you all. At work, we had to 'speak to' the slide.

Not only do I despise PowerPoint with a passion, but surely I can 'speak about' the slide and not to it?

@HappiestSleeping "speak to" the point on the agenda at my work. Certainly, I can do that, although I don't expect the agenda will have much to contribute by way of a response.

I hate all of the following and sadly I am hearing and reading them (in UK news articles) more and more;
"Bring"... when they mean Take
"Me either"... instead of Me Neither
Apples are better "Then" Pears!!
"Pay check"
"Poop"
"Excited for"
"Cupcake"
"Frosting"
"Jean Jacket"
"ATM"
"Hot flash"...it's FLUSH. Hot FLUSH. Ffs!!
I'm sure there are many more that are making their way into British English, that I will hate, just as much!

The only one I will allow from that list is cupcake. They are larger than a fairy cake and so to my mind a different item all together.

I agree entirely, with both the original list and this exemption for cupcake.