'Bored of' roolz okay?

Not to mention the "can I get"
phrase when asking for a culpa in a cafe or something!!!

Oh dear - I said "culpa" when I meant cuppa. Stupid auto text or maybe "mea culpa" !!!

Some of the worst I find seem to be used by the BBC

Great, they can whisk a reporter to some disaster or another to do a "live" broadcast .... but....

Some of the presenter insist on using "two time winner" instead of "twice winner". That one really grates - not only that, but I actually read the words "favor" and "labor" on a teletext report a couple of days ago.

Aaarrrgghhh!!

Like this one mcem :

Same goes for the best of two choices!

Clearly that's some kind of geometric progression - they have four choices if they have the best of two?!

"Different than" is standard American English.

An interesting thought here feetlebaum

It might be standard "American English" and in common use in America. Maybe the problem comes because there are similarities in the spelling of the words, but greater differences in the sense and understanding they convey.

Perhaps they should simply call it "American" rather than "American English" - would that avoid confusion about meanings?

Ironically - perhaps - a well known DIY and trade building supplies company has various "?? Center" outlets covering plumbing, electrical and other supplies. And they are a UK based company!

A lot of Americans speak Spanish. So saying American when you mean American English (i.e. not European English) wouldn't be helpful.

I think European English is usually called British English in dictionaries that also give American English variations.

Think it started with "Bored of the Rings" - which was a JOKE!

Chairman of the bored?.

I thought American English was the older, more authentic version of English English!

How can that be?

I think American English has kept some of the older expressions that the early English colonists used, that is all.

Rose and greenfinch
Here's an article about Tangier Island, Virginia, where the islanders speak a dialect related to Elizabethan English.
We visited it earlier this year and it is just as magical as the article suggests.
education.nationalgeographic.com/news/unique-speak/

For instance nowadays we don't say "gotten" but it was in common use in Elizabethan English and is still used in America. I gather that both American and Australian accents are thought to be much nearer to 15th and 16th century English than the way we speak today.

Interesting article but I'm with Shores .

But we must remember that "got" too is Middle English.

Early settlers in America didn't come only from english-speaking countries. It seems likely that sentence constructions and turns of phrase from other languages were also incorporated into American English.

That's true Farnorth but in Virginia the settlers were English and it is isolated communities in VA where old forms of pronunciation and usage persist, as I think the Creole language persists in Louisiana.

Thank you ja - that's really interesting.
They seem to have developed their own expressions!

The English Language Usage website says that 'with' and 'of' are alternative prepositions in the phrases 'bored with and 'bored of' and are equally acceptable but points out that the first usage is customary and deemed more acceptable.

However, there are common usages which are more problematic such as the American usage of 'different than' and the home grown 'different to' instead of 'different from'. One would not say 'differs than' or 'differs to' but always 'differs from' which gives a hint as to the more corrects usage in this case.

Of course language is dynamic and one welcomes this. The ingenuity and freshness of the demotic always adds verve to the established lexicon. However, in terms of keeping sense and of precision in language some adherence to the rules of grammar and even to usage are necessary. For instance, the use of 'disinterested' instead of 'uninterested' is to be avoided as they mean quite distinct things. 'Uninterested' means 'not interested' while 'disinterested' means 'not having a personal interest or concern in an issue' so that 'disinterested' becomes a useful synonym for 'objective' or 'unbiased'.

Language is a brain surgeon's scalpel dissecting nuance - not a bludgeon.

I often think that those who think matters of grammar and usage don't matter are those who wield language like a bludgeon. One wouldn't expect as informed a reply on matters of music from someone who doesn't play an instrument as from a concert pianist.

Those who dismiss the subtleties of language, grammar and usage know not of what they speak.

The one that gets to me is: he was STOOD by the bus stop, when it should be standing. It is becoming normal parlance now, which is fine, but it does grate on me. SAT also frequently features, when it should be sitting.

Thank you Teacher11 for such a brilliant defence of correct usage of words

I can remember thinking that 'bored stiff' was spelt 'board stiff'.