Shouting at the radio!

The French get irritated too when English gets absorbed into their language as in 'Le ping pong' and 'Le picnic', 'Le weekend' so it isn't only here.

I hate the phrase 'waiting in line' -it's a queue!
And I can't understand how 'cookies and milk' are supposed to go together - not in my house they don't. It's 'tea and biscuits' as we all know.
What about using the word 'around' as in I have a fear 'around' dentists? It's a fear of dentists. Do Americans use Englishisms?
Rant over.

Maybe there should be a national campaign to reintroduce "the flicks"
Or perhaps "the talkies"

My most annoying (and unnecessary) Americanisms: 'cookies' for biscuits, 'smart' for clever, and 'cotton candy' for candy floss.

Oh I do agree. I hate the term Movies - all my GC use it as does DH ( but to be fair he did work in US for several years).
We have a beautiful rich language & it breaks my heart to hear it cheapened with all this American stuff.
Far too many US TV programmes too. My 10 year old GD now speaks with a US drawl ( but not in my house!!)

I dont care for the Americanisms creeping into the English Language my pet hate is First Up then 24/7 to name just two out of dozens.

I'm interested to know how you feel about English words "creeping into" other languages. Also how you feel about using foreign words yourselves which now are accepted as being English.

On helping or giving being told 'good on you/yu' What happened to 'thank you.'?

Interesting to hear granddaughters playing using American accents and saying my pet hate 'guys'. They were born in Germany and Switzerland so are fluent in German (and English) and just moved to Finland so are now using daily the language their mother talks to them in. Such a shame that they need to use American with their range of languages it is definitely from television programmes and films.

My granddaughter asks for popsicles and candy. A lot of the things she watches are American.

I think we’re on a hiding to nothing if we think we can stop these words creeping into our vocabulary. I have a friend who has just returned from a holiday in Australia and now keeps calling her relatives ‘the rellies’ - I pretended I didn’t know what she meant, so asked who Mr and Mrs Relly are. She wasn’t amused.

Nanny27 yes, and also who films things nowadays? Don't we all record straight to digital video format? Actually I am really not sure how recordings are done professionally by studios, do they still use film reels? I am not sure.

I mentioned this on a post a few days ago. Hate the word movie. Doesnt the noun 'film' reflect the verb 'to film'?

Thank you for reminding me - I loved that song.........was it a record or a disc!!!

4allweknow your post puts me in mind of the song from 1969 "in the year 2525".

It seemed SO far off then......

There's no point calling them films any more unless you're talking about some old thing on a celluloid reel. That's what film is. And movie is even more out of date - going back to the time when you only had still photographs and they had just learnt to make moving pictures. These days all screen performance should be called "video". Also the term "footage" always makes me smile. How can you measure a video recording in feet?

My GD this is 6 has started saying "movie" instead of film. Must have picked this up at school as tv and computer use amounts to about an hour on a Saturday morning so no influence from those. More and more Americanisms being used daily here. With the habit of shortening words, does Emma need to be shortened to Em? I am sure in not too far distant future humans will not speak at all.

Unfortunately there are a lot of Americanisms slipping into the English language,
It really annoys me when l read in the paper the word Hacks instead of tips , I’ve also noticed in one national paper on a quite a few occasions the word Colour being spelt the American way Color ,
and what happened to the word Christmas? lm fed up with it being called holiday.
Rant over until the next time.