Americanisation (the) of our language

Father Christmas for me too Yammy.

‘Autopsy’ instead of ‘Post Mortem’.

I don't think starting sentences with 'So' is Australian. I lived there for 10 years and never heard it used. I think it's just a fashion - there are lots of people, usually young, who readily adopt linguistic fashions in order to sound cool.

I only use ‘uni’ to try to fit in and not seem like the dinosaur I am (as on recent thread re degrees). I don’t like it and shouldn’t behave like a sheep, just like a dinosaur.?. Thanks Doodledog.

Hands up all those who say, Santa Claus. I had always said the old English Father Christmas [ from the mummer's plays] until I lived in the Noth East and then it was Santie I hadn't a clue what they were talking about.
Santa Claus was taken to America by German immigrants and they gave it to us. It's everywhere and Father Christmas very rarely heard.
My GC lived in the States I recognise I have picked it up from them and should say U.S.A for a while ,or over the pond as they say and call both of us Gramps and behind our backs grumps each time we correct them.Even their parents say math now and they weren't there long.
The spell check on Grans net gives you American spellings if you are not careful and I am using it because my spelling is atrocious.

Yeah, no is said a lot around where I live, but yeah, no, I think it always has been.

our goods

In this house we watch films not movies.
We go to the pictures not the cinema.
We get out goods from shops, not 'in store'.

I think it might be Australian rather than American, but I cringe at Uni ?. It sounds even worse when older people use it, too.

I've never noticed 'yes, no?' but another hate of mine (I also freely admit to being a grumpy old woman) is the way people, especially noticeable on the radio, start sentences with 'So ...'

Sago

Happy holidays instead of Happy Christmas?

Again, nobody says that here. Surely the Americans are entitled to use their own language/expressions in their own country ??!

MollyF

So you hate toilet - at least it's honest.

It’s a word, that’s all

Happy holidays instead of Happy Christmas?

A woman in an out-patients clinic yesterday asked for the 'restroom.' which flummoxed the young staff.
Haven't heard that for years; not sure if it is American.

In Scots law there is a criminal offence. Culpable Homicide, the Americans must have borrowed it from us. ?

Not sure if these are even Americanisms, but
I'll take that
Greys
My bad
Reach out

Also...and this isn't American I'm sure, why do people start as sentence with say 'yes, no'? It's either yes, or no isn't it?

Just one more grump - when someone asks a question for which the answer is yes, why do people feel the need to reply 'Very much so?'

Freely admit to being a grumpy old woman.

So you hate toilet - at least it's honest.

The creeping use of Homicide instead of Murder winds me up. It seems to detract from the reality of what it is.

Agh!!!

Ladyleftfieldlover

Gifting!

Does regifting irritate you even more? ?

Gifting!

My pet peeve is gotten. I know it's archaic English and they still use it, but I hear it everytime I read it and it irritates me!

Apparently, I'm having the opposite effect with some of my students who go to the US for university.

One of my Chinese kids went to the US and asked someone where the loo was. Only to be met with blank faces.

I live in Ireland. Toilet and passed away are very common expressions here and have been for a long time.

Personally I can't stand 'reached out' and 'play date'

I get very irritated by the use of ‘pled’ instead of ‘pleaded’ in particular. I’m a dyed in the wool pedant.