When Did....Become...?

The ubiquitous ’enjoy’ when served in a restaurant, coffee shop etc .
On second thoughts, I would put up with it now, with a good grace!

And when, for some people, did it become necessary for every sentence to begin with ‘So,’. Drives me nuts, it sounds ridiculous!

To has sometimes become ta, as in "We are going ta employ 1000s of Doctors ta work in Hospitals" ....listen to the Prime Minister for example.

I want to know who is removing the "o" from everyday words - such as Police - now seemingly always pronounced as "Plice"!

Cookery books become Cookbooks

Shop workers have become colleagues

milk delivery person has always been addressed as Milko around here.
and how valauable they are at the moment. anyone who has one, please cherish them, and round up the bill owing if poss.

Aeroplanes are now airplanes.

Invitations are invites.

Snap, polyperkins I was taught not to say 'brainstorming' in case it offends 'epileptics' which I found stunning since it is rarely offensive to people with epilepsy but being referred to as epileptic often offends.

Time-saving tips or hints have become Hacks

Staff who became colleagues have now become co-workers and some are now known as “People” as in “British Airways People” ( other companies are available)

The world started going to Hell in a handcart round about the time a Marathon turned into a Snickers!?
Have hugely enjoyed this thread, but can’t add to it as you have said it all already.
Although....when did quite ordinary houses start to have a ‘master bedroom’?

Oh, I nearly forgot the dreaded “ Break-out” sessions from staff training which generally involved getting into groups armed with felt tip pens and a large sheet of paper. What did it all mean?

Has anyone mentioned the use of ‘smart’ to mean clever? Another Americanism.

Maybe it was a Scottish 'thing' but when I was a child, the word pregnant was never used, it was always ' expecting ' .

Just this evening, on television, a caption denoted that the lady who was talking was a ' garment technician '. I don't know
what that means. Perhaps a dressmaker?

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.

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 patients become service users?!

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?

Shop assistants to sales executives

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).

..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.....

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

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.

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