Americanisms creeping in

Touch base..

I'll share my favorite ..

"Bless your heart/s ... "

My two pet hates are double negatives and the dropping of the letter t in words like lottery! One thing I do love though is reading everyone's interesting posts.

"Hello, how are you?"
"I'm good, thanks"

"And would that be 'good' as in - pure, moral, conscientious, meritorious, worthy, exemplary, upright, in good shape, commendable, admirable. obedient, heedful kindly, benevolent, humane, gracious, obliging, full, adequate,
profitable, useful, serviceable, beneficial, efficient, proficient, capable, able, ready, suited, suitable, dexterous, expert, adroit or apt?"

To those who dislike "gotten" it was actually Middle English, taken to the New World by the immigrants from the UK, so not actually an American import at all.
I find it quite useful as a past participle.

I agree with Chris that 'reaching out' rather than 'contact'
is irritation but if one has fallen overboard and is drowning it just might be allowance

What I find more irritating is the way British, Kiwi and even Maori singers, lapse into pseudo-American accents the moment they begin to sing!
Why?

They certainly don't speak with US accents, so why sing in an entirely false one? Grrrrr.

But then, as the above posts have observed, we are suffering from Coca-colonisation; swamped by US food chains, TV and movies - no getting away from it.

That, far more than entering the EU was the death of much true British heritage. As indeed it is of Kiwi heritage, new country though we are.

Stunning!! especially when it’s actually plain and uninteresting!

Elephant in the room.

Ah, Sparklefizz, but fairy cakes are dainty little things, smaller than cup cakes, which usually have far too much sickly icing, too.

I made little fairy cakes with Gdcs the other day and will confess to correcting Gdd when she called them cup cakes. But she's only 4, so I can make allowances for such dire errors.

I must offer profuse apologies - I recently commented “Gee whizz”, on a G.N post. I was too polite to swear!

(I’’ )was sat instead of sitting.
(I ) was stood instead of standing.
At the end of the day.
It’s not rocket science?
Was you instead of weren’t you.
Latest phrase seems to be ‘heads up’ .Not really sure where thatcame from or what it really means.

Brexit means Brexit. Sick to death of hearing the meanless words.

I hate it when people Express their like for something with
Luvly jubbly, it makes me cringe
And my boss always says, I am not being funny what I am going to say here.
I dont like to pick her up on it

Wedding bands. Train station - why not railway station?

'It's very unique'.

'I get to be able to . . . . '. Why not say 'it means I am able to . . . .' or 'It enables me to . . . .'

I’m not sure whether it’s American or not, but I am very irritated by ‘way’ used to mean ‘much’ or ‘far’ in expressions like ‘way too hot’. It’s almost taken over.

A sentence starting with 'Like' or 'So', everything is 'awesome' or 'can I get a.....', 'I'm good', 'Have a great/nice day'. Too much unnecessarily positivity and excitement for me. 'Be your best self' - or version of - what or whom else would I be?grrrr. I'm sure there are many Englishisms that have crossed the pond, although it's essentially the same language just a different use of syntax, maybe not.
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even more so when the choice is 'English' (as per normal) and then English English doh!

And of course- when in the USA- beware of English words which have a totally different meaning (like fag, or fanny, lol)

Cup cakes instead of fairy cakes.

Nouns made into verbs eg. he summitted Everest, she medalled at the Olympics.

Aaaarrrgh!

What really annoys me after a sports contest ,is when the interviewer goes up to the winner and asks”How did it make you feel?”
What sort of stupid question is that?
What is almost as bad is”Talk us through it.”

The word Gotten appears in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe written about 1700. A lot of Americanisms actually started here. Did we all know that "Stiff upper lip " was originally an American expression. The languages are tied together in intricate ways but I agree that the Friends ! influence on our language does jar.

Like in every sentence

Nearly all of the above!
However I also hate the phrase “what that would look like” as in he started a new routine but didn’t know what that would look like!
I can’t stand the creeping use of gotten, movies and cookies; also candy and cell phone!
Stand out as in stand out performance.
Across the store, or worse, in store instead of in this store or in the store etc
On the weekend instead of at the weekend
I could go on??‍♀️

Alright? Used as a greeting, this is not an Americanism. My husband is from Kent and has been using this as a greeting since I met him more than 30 years ago - and when we lived there for a while it was what most people used.