Modern words that annoy you!

‘Hit me up’ grinds my gears. I think it means contact me 🤷‍♀️

Nanny27

I taught in a high school. Some English counties still retain a 3 tier system, First school, Middle school and High school.

We had the 3 tier system here but it's now gone back to Primary 4-11 and Secondary 11-18.

When we had the 3 tier system it was definitely:
Lower 4-9
Middle 9-13
Upper 13-18
No mention of High School, although there are private schools called High Schools.

A bit late seeing this - probably guilty of some of these.
But, I agree about math instead of maths. (interestingly, the spell check is happy without the s, but wants to correct it with the s)
In that vein - people who say they gave it 110% - impossible!!
And usually politicians who say "Let me be clear" when they are going to be anything but clear.

Grinds my gears grinds my gears.

Looking on the Lakeland website this morning I was encouraged to but a 'frypan'. I might consider a frying pan but I will never buy a frypan!

American GN members are fully entitled to use their own words and expressions but why do we have to adopt them?

The wonderful Bill Nighy has a podcast and has drawn up a list of words his lisreners think should be banned. He's very entertaining and the list so far is very good. I was very pleased to see 'picky bits' on it!

Chestnut

Nanny27

I taught in a high school. Some English counties still retain a 3 tier system, First school, Middle school and High school.

We had the 3 tier system here but it's now gone back to Primary 4-11 and Secondary 11-18.

When we had the 3 tier system it was definitely:
Lower 4-9
Middle 9-13
Upper 13-18
No mention of High School, although there are private schools called High Schools.

My DCs attend, or have attended, various different High Schools at secondary level, 11-16, all of them state schools. Perhaps this is relatively recent.

The regular use of dramatic in US literature, meaning angry or cross
Regular instead of medium in sizing
Wicked meaning great

100%

My hairdresser usually agrees with me by saying one million percent

I hate hearing about 'storied' people ie people who have lived interesting lives.

SpinDriftCoastal

High school. We have secondary schools.

In some areas we had high schools for 11-14, and upper schools for 14-18 year olds. Both were secondary schools.

The word 'Karen' when used for anything other than a person's name. Originally used in America but increasing used now by those with a poor vocabulary.

Gammon is a joint of meat. Not a person with differing views to your own.

I agree with anything more than 100% sounds ridiculous.

MissAdventure

Gifting, ick, fur babies, and rainbow bridges.
Journeys instead of illnesses, amd reaching out.

Everything is a journey now! We’re on a ‘weight loss journey’, not a diet, ‘cancer journey’, not treatment, ‘learning journey’, not a course, and many more!
I’m noticing also that the double comparative is becoming popular, with things being ‘ more faster’, or ‘more bigger’, so just another source of annoyance for me!

I have never thought that ‘top of the hour’ meant noon or twelve o’ clock, but would refer to being on the hour, rather than, say, half past or twenty to.

After passing the 11 plus in the very early 60s my grammar school was W****** High School for Girls so not new or Americanised at all.

After passing the 11 plus, I too , in 1960, went into first year at
……………. High School for Girls- a state school in Scotland.

'The getgo' really is annoying to me. I was particularly surprised and disappointed to hear it spoken by our previous Prime Minister. I felt he should know better.

‘ Step foot’ has replaced ‘set foot’, and just recently I’ve seen ‘ spill the tea’ rather than ‘spill the beans’.

I dislike all American imports, like calling school children ‘students,’ their head teachers ‘principals’ and their lavatories ‘
bathrooms.’
Increasingly too tests being ‘quizzes’ and marks being ‘grades.’
All this despite the very poor reputation which US education has.

Abbreviations of words that I would rather continue to use as they have been used throughout my whole life.
The two that immediately jump to mind are 'merch' instead of 'merchandise' and 'deo' (stressed on the 'e') instead of 'deodorant'.

oldnproud I think mayo, though, is probably here to stay.

My girls’ grammar school was entitled ‘XTown High School for Girls’.

That is, until the town went comprehensive, and the brilliant buildings and lovely grounds we had were flogged off to a private school with ludicrously expensive uniform, that had previous been located on the high street, and whose pupils had mostly been those who hadn’t managed to pass the 11 plus.

Including a neighbour of ours, whose mother complained to mine that it had cost over £100*to get her daughter kitted out with everything, including the weird enormous hats they had to wear.

*in the mid 1960s.

Bellanonna

oldnproud I think mayo, though, is probably here to stay.

True.
I'm OK with that, though. Maybe it is because my mum never bought mayonnaise when I was a child. I always imagined it was like salad cream, which I have always hated. By the time I discovered that it was nothing like that, it was already being referred to as mayo 😁

I think some of the Academies (which most secondary schools are these days) are called High Schools. The pupils are called students.
I wish Wordle / Quordle / Octordle would have days with British English spelling. The "word" Emcee appears frequently and it drives me mad.

watermeadow

I dislike all American imports, like calling school children ‘students,’ their head teachers ‘principals’ and their lavatories ‘
bathrooms.’
Increasingly too tests being ‘quizzes’ and marks being ‘grades.’
All this despite the very poor reputation which US education has.

Agree. And when they simply leave school they are said to have graduated!

Agree that after primary school children go on to High School ,many older schools have their name carved over the door and usually are Public schools …that’s just means the local school for the public and our local high school is and always has been an academy…again it’s just a normal council run school.