When Did....Become...?

Expecting was often used for pregnant and big in the way for heavily pregnant. I remember being ticked off by a distant relative for using the word pregnant as it was vulgar.
Less instead of fewer.
Deadline becoming ultimatum.

Invitation become 'invite', yet another Americanism that has insinuated itself into the English language!

I agree with most of the ones already suggested and would like to draw your attention to these -

Why did ‘gifted’ replace ‘gave ?
Why is ‘twice’ becoming redundant, especially in sports reports ?
I hardly dare start on the misuse of ‘sat’ instead of sitting.

Curvy has always meant just that - curvy roads, curvy railway lines, curvy patterns, curvy edges . I’m a curvy gran, as opposed to a straight up and down one ! ( You can come out of hiding now, oldgimmer)

What's wrong with ' teaching assistant '? They became more available as SEN children were placed in mainstream schools.

Disinterested does NOT mean uninterested.

It's Aitch, not Haitch.

And don't get me going on Curvy (hides).

I queried blue sky thinking and cancer pathways at a Macmillan conference and nearly started a punch up as there were opinions from opinionated people.

I can well believe this. I was a nurse in the voluntary sector and would be invited to meetings with the local NHS trust. I gave up going. Apart from the fact they were all a shocking waste of time I couldn’t bear all the jargon and management speak. You no longer distribute or circulate information, you cascade. Nobody has skills any more. They all have a skill set. I got sick to death of everything being a pathway, many of which were signposted. This is ‘key’. That’s ‘key’. I had to leave before I resorted to violence. ?

You no longer train people for something. You train them up. As if training down would be an option. ?

My bugbear is ashume and conshume.

Every time I hear it on the radio I listen for it to be followed with ashumpshun or conshumpshun. I have heard conshumer being slipped in now so it's only a matter of time.

Invite instead of invitation.
Train station instead of railway station.

‘Passed ‘instead of died .

‘vulnerable’ as ‘vunerable’

Well, I think it’s the first pronunciation, could be wrong.

When I was little those who said Haitch for H were considered badly taught and we're corrected.
When did the term ’passed away’ take over from died.
Why do we have an abundance of Teaching Assistants in each class?
When did tattoos become acceptable for some?

Our language, as we know it, will die if we don't use it. If it's lost its out fault for not using our traditional vocabulary and pronunciation.
Just keep using the words WE want.

Yes that's what I thought too Tweedle24

I suppose we’ve all got to start thinking outside the box ....

Callisteron as a Devonshire girl, what I call a turnip is the hard, white root (neap in Scotland) and the orange fleshed one, a swede.

When did the initials CV stop meaning Curriculum Vitae and start meaning something else entirely......

..and when did it become proper english to start every sentence with "so"?

And can we legislate to break the fingers of the next idiot that makes that stupid heart shape when they like something?

Grrrrr.....

Re ‘colleagues’, my local Asda used to have a sign up, saying, ‘If you can’t find what you want, please ask a colleague.’

I felt like facetiously asking customer services whether I was supposed to back to work to ask where I could find the red lentils!
(I didn’t).

Shop assistants to sales executives

Stupid - dumb (long-standing now I know, and AFAIK from the German dumm (which does mean stupid) via America.

Anyway - anyways

Ring (phone) - call
I still say ring - am I alone?

When did patients become service users?!

For sewers fabric was always used as an industry term for the stuff we sew. In fact fabric or material used to called stuff.

When did "temperature" become "fever"?

The Germans use "Fieber" for a raised temperature and that had me really worried when I first heard it as an au pair way back when. I was imagining the poor child delirious and consumed with fever.