Is this a national uprising against the lack of Zeds in our language or just a thing in my family or just my family.

My DD uses arvo (afternoon), Soz, and thanx - assume it's office talk!

I hate it with a passion when people text (or say) things like "soz". It's meaningless and affected and there's a perfectly good real word - sorry.

Ooh...are all these z-words really accepted in WWF?
If so, I'll overlook their ugliness!

I particularly object to "I forgot my password" instead of "forgotton password" If we continue to replace one tense with another we should soon be unintelligable. There's a reason for tenses ! Think of " I've forgotton my false teeth", as opposed to "I forgot my teeth".. ??
Also, the plane will stop" momentarily" at Heathrow. Changes in vocabulary and tense change the meaning.

Two points:

In Scotland in the 1950s we were taught that realise/ realize, visualise/ visualize were both correct. It was up to the user to decide which spelling to use, but that having made your choice you should stick to it and not use both spellings in the same text.

A lot of Scottish children were brought up to ask if they could go to, or use the bathroom, thus avoiding the controversey as to whether lavatory was rude and toilet polite, or the other way around.

Neither the s versus z business or the use of bathroom for toilet or lavatory were considered American usages.

As toilets are standard features of bathrooms, you were not left facing the dilemma if you had asked to wash your hands that I once did, as there was no wash-basin at the toilet, so I was shown to the kitchen sink and had in some embarrassment to say I needed to wee!

annodomini I really like that!

Can’t you just be happy they are keeping in contact?

@Gwenisgreat1 Arvo is an Australian shortform. They are very fond of O-ing almost everything. Fremantle is Freeo, a bottle shop(off-license) is a bottle-o etc

Lazy sloppy Americanisms (only one z to ponder) I hate them, why do we Brits and especially the British under the age of about 35years, think that they need to subjugate themselves to Trumpania, USA if your in doubt

FarNorth

Our government are a bunch of idiots, that's why they do stupid things including rushing into Brexit.

Baboom! Do I get a prize for being first to mention brexit on a non-brexit thread?

FarNorth
Surely it's BreggZit not Brexit?

I may have a sanger this arvo GwenisGreat!

But back to English in its correct form, Zounds and Gadzooks!

No idea about Irish Gaelic boat soz.

Shakespeare campaigning against zed - that's shocking!

I like to chuck in an occasional silly slang word or abbreviation, but wouldn't do it in a text or email that was meant to be serious.

BBJS. Americans tend to use the imperfect tense of verbs where we would use the perfect tense (I have forgotten etc).

'I just did' instead of 'I've just done' is one feature of transatlantic English that really annoys me.

Couldn’t agree more anno

Going back to the "bathroom" discussion, what is wrong with "washroom"? Lavs do after all have washbasins.
I suppose we'll never get rid of "I'm good" in answer to "How are you?"

I use soz but regard it as being less sincere than sorry more like a jokey apology in a bantering style (bantz? )

I have also affectionately used cuz for my cousin.

However, I am pleased to see that the letter Z being referred to as Zed on this thread rather than the appalling Zee that a lot of people seem to use.

Sorry but I love the english language and all these rubbish lazy abbreviations in texts and emails are completely unnecessary. They drive me crazy!

Abbreviations are a good idea in texts, which by their nature lend themselves to brevity.

Janeainsworth, that is fascinating about Tangier Island.

Anyone noticed the custom of answering a question with ‘so’. .......,,

FarNorth I think Breggzit is northern, along with eggzam for eggzample.
Down here we say Brexit, pronounced Brecksit.
Breggzit drove me potty back when we heard the damn word a hundred times a day.

I say Brecksit but I do say eggsam and eggzample. I am “down here” too.

I say Brecksit as do others up here in the far north, but plenty of people do say Bregzit.
I think my pronunciation of exam and example are kind of mid-way between the two, iyswim.