Americanisation (the) of our language

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 ??!

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When I read these threads I try to think of something ordinary that winds me up.
So far, there’s nothing.

Agree with Nannarose, language changes constantly. I used to find expressions such as 'passing' and 'gotten' annoying but I've come to realise that change is the norm and is, in fact, what keeps our language alive and fresh. So many of us spend time on the world wide web that we are bound to pick up words and phrases from other cultures. We have to go with the flow!

I have only recently lived in a place where the lavatory was in the bathroom, so it doesn’t really make sense to me to call it that.

Cell phone instead of mobile. To be fair I only hear Americans themselves use these words.
Pass for died is used constantly. Weird.

I would ask to use the bathroom if there was a bath in it. Otherwise it's the loo.

Language always changes, and some who know these things tell us that some American words are actually old English ones, like garbage & faucet.

Friends tell me that I use American turns of phrase, which I think I've always used - but I grew up near a USAF base.

Although I deeply dislike 'passing' and don't use it, I am not sure its use can be laid solely at the door of the US - I have most frequently heard it used by Irish people. But then a lot of expressions are used by both Irish and Americans.

If you don't like an expression, don't use it.

Hack instead of tip.

I too hate the word toilet and even worse lavatory! It makes me think of the Victorian, public toilets in our town, where many years ago, no-one ventured after dark. I will stick with bathroom.

Agree about bathroom, but we weren’t even allowed to say ‘toilet’ at home or at school. It was ‘lavatory’.

I can’t think of any Americanisms I like.

Mattsmum2

Math instead of Maths! ?

Nobody says that over here.

“Gotten” is creeping in.
Journalists love it.

Peek instead of peep, leash instead of lead, preorder instead of order, I'm sure that there are lots of others.

Math instead of Maths! ?

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

How do you plan to rebel ??!

Agreed!!

‘Back story’ instead of history, I rally dislike that .