Americanisms...is it just me that finds them irritating?

BugglyB

Wow I had no idea I was annoying so many people.

I call my mum 'mom'. I'm not from the west midlands, we picked it up as an Americanism. I don't see why it should matter to anyone else, what I call her.

I say 'awesome' a lot. I dont mean that whatever it is inspires awe in me, I mean it's great, I think thats a generally accepted use of the phrase.

Language does change and evolve all the time. I don't see why if you're such purists you're not speaking Latin, or mediaval English?

hellzbellz

Dunroamin wrote: »

There is nothing wrong with American English when used by Americans. Equally there is nothing wrong with British people disliking the way that these expressions drift thoughtlessly into our own language - surely that's the point of this discussion.

Yes well the point is that English don't like what started out as English. But thank you for your contribution.

hellzbellz

Abbafan1972 wrote: »

One has crept in there it seems. :rotfl:

Ha spell check stays true to its British roots it would appear

adouglasmhor

hellzbellz wrote: »

Yes well the point is that English don't like what started out as English. But thank you for your contribution.

Well we have all progressed since then, why be happy about a regression?

pollypenny

Toto wrote: »

An Americanism which irritates is when non American people use D in a word instead of T, so congradulations instead of congratulations. Makes me want to yell 'sdop id you sdupid dwid

Americans have a good exercise to avoid that:

You get a better stick of butter in manhattan?

I'll be working on the diction of both my grandsons. Not yet though. Number one has just started putting words together, little brother is three weeks old.

Off to give them some good Welsh accent next week!

Scorpio33

Hey dude, relax. Take your pants off and sit your fanny down on the couch. Oh, don't worry about the trash, that can stay in the trash can.

Scorpio33

The ony thing that does annoy me is on computers when you have to select language and it only allows you to select English (American) - what ever happened to English English?!

Gloomendoom

Scorpio33 wrote: »

The ony thing that does annoy me is on computers when you have to select language and it only allows you to select English (American) - what ever happened to English English?!

I don't think I've ever seen English English. British English is quite common though.

Dunroamin

BugglyB wrote: »

Wow I had no idea I was annoying so many people.

I call my mum 'mom'. I'm not from the west midlands, we picked it up as an Americanism. I don't see why it should matter to anyone else, what I call her.

I say 'awesome' a lot. I dont mean that whatever it is inspires awe in me, I mean it's great, I think thats a generally accepted use of the phrase.

Language does change and evolve all the time. I don't see why if you're such purists you're not speaking Latin, or mediaval English?

We've never spoken Latin in this country and I think you might mean Middle Engish.

I certainly don't think that "awesome" is generally accepted as just meaning great even if you mean the word rather than the phrase.:D

*max*

What actually annoys me is the expression "Is it just me that..?"