Americanisation (the) of our language

Yes coco51- the 'holidays' thing grates on me too- its CHRISTMAS for goodness sake!

Annaram1

I hate the term pants instead of knickers.

Zippers instead of zips.

Ass instead of arse.

When in the US I was sitting on a bench and a passing man in a cowboy suit tipped his hat and said "Howdy Ma'am!" I thought that was so cute.

I thought that in US English pants meant trousers.

As we were recently exposed to a "my truth" interview we now know following subsequent revelations that really should be construed as "my version of the truth" how the lines become blurred in some people's memory lapses!

Can I get ? instead of Can I have

Yes my youngest son (18) has picked up some American terms from tv shows or video games, and uses them in conversations- his elder brother (23) and i always say "oh, you mean 'such and such?' and use the English term- e.g he asked his brother if he was calling for gas on way (taking him to college) his brother replied I'm going for petrol yes.?

'Can I get.' Our 40/50 year old DSs all say it and it really grates.

Here I sit, mean and artful.
Paid a penny, did a cartful.

Zeebra... shudder!
Now I know my ABC... blah blah blah blah XY Zee??

I prefer to 'spend a penny' but modern types have no memory of pay as you enter loos. This old toilet poem may raise a laugh. I couldn't believe it when my very respectable great aunt told me it.

'Here I sit broken hearted,
Paid my penny,
Only farted!'

Passing wind. There's a topic for international language discussion.

'My truth'. Whenever I hear someone say, 'that's my truth', I always think that the next thing out of their mouth is going to be, at best, a twist on the truth or an outright lie.

When I arrived in the States in 1964 I had an early morning interview and asked a flat mate to "knock me up in the morning" He said he would be delighted

I usually just ask people if i can use the loo!

My granddaughter calls sweets candy... And a lot of other American words for things...She watches a lot of kids programmes from the US. Luckily I don't have to listen to them... I can't bear the always upbeat, constantly falsely happy, shrill voices in these programmes. I do have American friends who speak normally by the way, so its not a racist comment.

Can I get... ?Arghhh!

‘Inside of’ - ‘of’ superflous.
‘Alooominum’ - Aluminium.
‘Holidays’ - It’s Christmas.
The upward inflection of every sentence - I think this might be Australian, though.

Its like they are so lazy they
cannot extend the whole phrase!?

And even on GN you get the Americanised spellings trying to creep in where what you may type has red underlines if spelt the English way!
I hate the use of "gotten" but it is apparently old English !

Grandetante, I remember "need the bathroom" in Glasgow, and also in the Scottish Borders.

I hate the term pants instead of knickers.

Zippers instead of zips.

Ass instead of arse.

When in the US I was sitting on a bench and a passing man in a cowboy suit tipped his hat and said "Howdy Ma'am!" I thought that was so cute.

And yes, the 'passed' thing annoys me as well- ' passed AWAY' means dying!

Another that I had forgotten about, and for which I am sure no American citizen can be blamed, is saying ‘the crem’ instead of “the crematorium’. Whoever thought tha was a good idea?!!

The place to do excretions often gets a euphemistic name. I used to know really old ladies in the 1930s who called it "the closet". My mother called it "the W.C." or "the bathroom".
At boarding school it was "to be excused" , Among hospital colleagues it was "the turret"(architectural reasons)

I hate it on tv when Americans say they are 'pi**ed' because to us Brits it means we are inebriated, or drunk- and to us being 'pi**ed OFF is what they mean!

In the Glasgow area "needing the bathroom" was considered more polite than other expressions and got you out of the dilemma of "toilet" versus "lavatory".

There are Scottish words for the smallest room that make toilet seem positively refined.

Lucca

Oh excellent another classic “grumpy old women” thread ??personally I dislike the word toilet but there you go…

How do you plan to rebel ??!

... what I dislike even more than 'toilet' is when those involved in social care who have to help people to it, refer to the process as "toileting".

It's not an American turn of phrase, but it makes my toes curl.