Grab

Another one I dislike is when people talk about their PIN number. Unnecessary repetition of the word number.

NotSpaghetti

I dislike "can I get" when being served in a restaurant/cafe too! 🙄

Hear hear. I’d rather “grab” any day…,

maddyone

I agree with all these, although I am, as I said before, guilty of saying grab, much to Mr M’s annoyance.
He also complains (and gets on my nerves with complaining) about the question what’s the name today and always answers the same as it was yesterday. It usually evokes a smile.

My pet hate is awesome about everything. It apparently means astonishing, incredible, miraculous, therefore when I saw the Grand Canyon it was indeed awesome. A cupcake in a cafe is not. Nor is a dress or cup of coffee.

I'm with you on "awesome" (and "amazing").

Most 'offensive' to me is when an individual who is in the public-eye, but neither awesome or amazing, says something that many agree with (on any random subject) - and becomes a legend.

... just because he's made a witty comment! It's usually men in the 20-30 age bracket who do this.

When I was a child the phrase" just grabbing something to eat" meant that you didn't have time to sit down at the lunch table and ate a mouthful and went on with whatever else you (an adult) were doing. Children weren't allowed to eat, except at a table where "ask, don't grab" was the rule.

Perhaps it is the hectic pace of life today that has caused this usage of "grab" instead of "eat" " drink" "take" etc.

Grab is not a word I pr any of my family use for anything

First heard “See you later “ 44 years ago when we moved to Essex. Was horrified that this particularly annoying new neighbour intended to come back soon🤣

I am glad I am not the only one who has gotten to hate "grab"

Oh and Grab is the name of taxi service in Singapore, similar to Uber. DS who lives there will “Grab a Grab” Double horror?😀

Mr M’s pet hate is when asked could you just…..please. He says why minimise the effort? He really is the most pedantic of people with regard to language. He drives me bonkers at times. That’s my penance for marrying a Classics graduate I think. He constantly looks for the route of words and constantly educates tells me about them. He picks up on any small thing such as the use of the word guys. In any case it’s an Americanism although when I asked him, he pondered on the route and suggested it may have come from the name Guy Fawkes originally, guy now meaning a young man, perhaps even a young man getting up to no good!

He drives me mad at times but he’s a great guy really.

I dislike the use of “gotten”

“Gotten” is perfectly acceptable American English though I agree I don’t like to hear it from those brought to speak British English. Still there is no law against it 😄

Although hated by many, I rather like the Americanism “Have a nice day” and often use it, or “Have a nice evening/afternoon” etc. It can round off saying goodbye quite nicely.

I say grab quite a lot 😊
Never ‘gotten’ or ‘you guys’ or ‘have a nice day’ tho.
I expect a lot of people are needled by ‘tho’ 😄
Language is an evolving thing.Be interesting to come back in 100 years to see.

GSM you are so right. I hate it too.

We have a wonderfully rich language, why bastardise it with Americaisums?

I can not read American novels for the same reason. Just too irritating.

The trouble is... lots of American- isms are actually older forms of English. It is here in the UK that we have developed and accepted new UK-isms.

'Gotten' is English but its usage went out of fashion here several centuries ago whereas Brits who went to North America in the 16th century continued to use it and its use has persisted right up to date. Personally, I like it and would be happy if it made a comeback here.
Now, if someone would like to mash the tea or make me a brew, I'll gratefully accept - but please, don't ever offer me a cupper. For no logical reason, I loathe that term.

Interesting, Scribbles. Thank you.

At this moment in time, really gets me of course we are in this moment of time I always want to say to them.

From the get go.
Back in the day.
Taken literally they make no sense.

I always smile sincerely at customers and bestow upon them my hopes that their day (what is left of it) is average or at least bearable😆

How about going backwards and forwards Surely it’s the wrong way round, we should be going forwards and backwards.

I don’t like ‘you guys’ either and I find it patronising . I don’t mind ‘grab’ so much as in ‘grab a bite to eat’. We do a lot of word games ( in a, possibly futile, means to head off brain decay!) and we both notice that Americans still use quite a few archaic English words dating back to the Mayflower!

The amount of times that the presenters of A Place in the Sun say ‘ you guys ‘ absolutely infuriates me. They also say ‘ this is your kitchen/bathroom’. Why not just use ‘the’!

None of these bother me. Our language is evolving, as it always has, and will contribute to do so. I often "grab a coffee to go", and I "Jump in the bath/ shower", on a regular basis. They're just words. I'm pedantic about spelling and grammar, but that's about it....

They also say ‘ this is your kitchen/bathroom’. Why not just use ‘the’!

grannybuy it's a sales technique.
They're trying to encourage the purchasers to picture themselves owning and living in the property 😉