Is it only me that goes grrr at this phrase?

I’ve just had an email from Joules - ‘Hoorah, now there’s even more savings in our...sale..’

It’s not just the ‘hoorah’ that grates - surely either ‘hurrah’ or ‘hooray’? - it’s also ‘there’s/there is with a plural.
Yes, I know it’s everywhere now but I still hate it!

Grumpy old pedant hat off, I shall now go and do something useful.
PS - just checked the dictionary to see whether I was wrong over ‘hoorah’.
I wasn’t.

Of course they do! Jane10 (I nearly said you bet they do but I remembered that's an import too)

And they don't wait to ...take a hand of thine, either. What is the world coming to!

I bet your visitors sing 'Old Lang Zzyn' Grammaretto. Argh. Another abomination.

Granny23 of course it is!
But the pluralising of New Year is definitely an import.

Happy New Decade!!

(sorry to be early but I don't intend to call by in the morning)

I have always said "New Year's" - a bit lazily, short for NY Eve / Day.
I don't think it's an Americanism - but DH points out that I grew up near a USAF base, some of the kids came to our school, and he thinks I absorbed some expressions without realising.
For instance, he thinks "from the get go" is an Americanism, he says he was surprised when I used it when we first met, 50 years ago. He says it now!

All wrong! Today is Hogmanay.

Witzend

It is irritating I agree Phoenix not what would be expected from Waitrose! !

Yes, I hate it, too.
I’m surprised at Waitrose, normally such a bastion of more up-market proper-ness.
I dare say many of their PR/media/whatever-they-call-them staff are 20-somethings who’ve been reared on a diet of American films and don’t see nowt wrong with it.

Now now isn't it racist to complain of Americanisms?

Our visiters from USA were surprised that we sang Auld lang syne in Scotland, just like them.

Yes phoenix I received that one and winced at the Americanisation ...
It arrived on the same morning as one from Tesco (referred to in one of my posts yesterday) exhorting me to eat up my cheese and not throw it away. I DO NOT THROW CHEESE AWAY !

Which bright spark sits in these supermarket HQ offices, dreaming up communications strategies... I think they earn too much !

Shouldn’t that be New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day?

Don't start on all that 'Happy holidays' nonsense!! That really annoys me.

happy holidays !

It'll be 'Valentines' next


I agree, sloppy and awful.