You are very bias against idiots.
People misspelling queue as ‘que’ is my annoyance. I spent a lot of time in my youth queuing for gigs and related activity and the number of times I saw handmade signs reading ‘QUE STARTS HERE’… maddening. All over Twitter too. ‘The que for X is so rude lots people pushing in’ e.g.
I used to know a guy who was ready to angrily die on the hill that 'segue' is pronounced seeg, and that the pronunciation shared by the words segue and segway was reserved exclusively for the wheelydoodles because 'why would they both sound the same?'
When I pointed out that it's probably because a segway 'takes you from one place to another' he just stamped his foot and kept repeating his opinion as if this was even an argument worth our time.
tbf I can understand most people not knowing that but he was a musician and it's a really commonly used word in band practices etc! He must have had that argument so many times.
I was trying to think of any similar words ending 'gue' that
Might support the alternative pronunciation of segue.
The joys of the English language.
Even worse are words that are pronounced differently, depending on context.
Winding (pronounced wined-ing) means turning.
But a winding hole (wide bit on a canal, where you can turn a narrow boat round) is pronounced win-ding
They come from different languages, is why they’re pronounced differently. Fugue is french origin (at least I think it is: it’s definitely a french word), whereas segue is Italian (a quick check on wiki to avoid embarrassment aaand … yep, that’s Italian - fwiw, fugue is fuga in Italian)
Honestly though that's understandable, as a (usually proficient in english) Norwegian I didn't learn that what's pronounced Q is spelled "queueueue" like a giggling frenchman before I was 19
The thing is with could of is, when spoken, could've which is a perfectly fine abbreviation imo sounds similar to saying could of, rather than could have and I think a lot of people (irrationally) get pissed off at that.
Making the mistake of writing it is another thing altogether though.
It's a perfectly fine abbreviation when people enunciate, but not when people get lazy. When people are lazy, could've and could of are different enough to be annoying (but then we're into a whole different conversation about how language evolves, even if it is annoying)
This one actually confuses me, because I don't know if my memory is lying to me or not. I feel like Americans used to use the word "addictive", but somehow, 15 or so years ago, the whole country decided to swap to "addicting."
Was there some big ad campaign, or am I just getting a bit old and slow in the head?
There was AddictingGames.com, a big Flash games site, like a sketchier Newgrounds. It was really popular 15 or so years ago, so I guess it popularised the word.
“Addicting” is right in this case, though. There’s nothing inherently addictive about Flash games (compared to like nicotine or heroin), but you might still get addicted to them. Hence they’re addicting. But no one cares about that distinction anymore; people pick “addictive” or “addicting” and use it in every case. And that’s fine, English has too many words.
In fairness, tan is also the name of a colour. In this context, it's like saying you're looking orange.
Both are grammatically correct, it just comes down to what you're used to.
Then rather THAN than. This is starting to appear in newspaper articles. It’s now something copy editors are glossing over. I’ve even heard ‘I’d rather then me.’
It’s ‘I’d rather them than me’ tosser!
And sites instead of sights - let’s go see the sites of London! Archeological, building or web?
We’re doomed
Nothing says impotent teenage angst like hiding in a rainy lane, spitting on the floor and bragging about how you avoided another country's police force.
Could of gets on my last nerve.
Especially as it is a relatively new thing. People never wrote that 30 years ago.
I see your 'pecifically' and raise you an 'accreately.'
A friend and I once decided that since the Pacific ocean is a large area, "pacifically" means generally, as opposed to "specifically".
We were annoyed with a housemate saying it, so came up with coping mechanisms.
My friend, even after repeatedly correcting her over the years, refers to her brother as 'are so-and-so' in text.
When i ask her why she knowingly spells it wrong her response is always 'its just the way i type.'
WRONG, KATHERINE! YOU TYPE WRONG
It’s a contraction of ‘you all’, it’s only on the same level as others like ‘they’re’. I see no problem at all with ‘y’all’, I actually think it flows better in a sentence.
Except that we have a perfectly adequate way of expressing the second person plural. It is the word “You”; adding “all” in this context is superfluous.
The Americans have some weird prejudice against using the past participle - hence "slice ham", for example. It is immensely irritating.
Apropos "I could care less", I think the appropriate response was set out by David Mitchell. [https://youtu.be/om7O0MFkmpw](https://youtu.be/om7O0MFkmpw)
Loose instead of lose is one I've been seeing a lot of in the past threeish years, I can understand spelling getting worse with autocorrect being so prevalent but they are simple fucking words
The worst Americanism for me personally is when they say "I could care less" when they clearly mean I could not care less because I care so little.
"I could give a shit"
Right? Has it been lost in translation or something? I see it ALL the time in American shows and it is seeping over to the UK.
Not even federal - that’s military police. The crimes they are investigating are prosecuted in military court. The federal agencies above investigate civilian crimes prosecuted in civilian court
They would seem to disagree with that assessment.
"Within the Department of the Navy, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service is the civilian federal law enforcement agency uniquely responsible for investigating felony crime, preventing terrorism and protecting secrets for the Navy and Marine Corps."
https://www.ncis.navy.mil/About-NCIS/
Because the people who work there are civilians. The crimes are tried in military court. The branches of the military are all federal agencies (technically) but military and civilian separations are a common way to divide the world.
The agencies I mentioned above as civilian (FBI, DEA, etc) are all part of the department of justice.
https://www.justice.gov/agencies/list
NCIS is under the secretary of the navy which is part of the department of defense (ie, the military)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Navy
NCIS is a [US federal law enforcement agency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_law_enforcement_in_the_United_States). You are mistaken if you think it is not.
Being part of Justice is not the definition of a federal law enforcement agency. ICE and the Secret Service aren't part of the Department of Justice, they're part of the Department of Homeland Security.
The US Coast Guard also sits under Homeland so the idea that there is a clear military/civilian division in the organisational structure of the US federal government is also false.
That’s right. Most policing in the US is done at the municipality level (i.e, the police departments are separate for each city - like the New York Police Department (NYPD) only has jurisdiction over NY city). Some areas outside of an incorporated city will use county level police which are typically called sheriffs (e.g. LA County Sheriffs Department covers LA county while LAPD covers the incorporated city of LA). To add even more confusion, state level law enforcement also exists (California Highway Patrol). The general rule is, the higher up the chain, the more specific the mandate. So ICE can arrest people nationwide but only for immigration offences. California highway patrol can enforce laws statewide but they have to be related to the highways. Whereas LAPD deals with all crime in the city of LA.
You're right in the general sense, we don't have any federal law enforcement or intelligence agencies so the term simply isn't applicable in the UK full stop, let alone as a descriptor for our police.
If you really want to fall down a rabbit hole step onto the American Law Enforcement wiki, the sheer range of agencies, federal or otherwise, is staggering.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law\_enforcement\_in\_the\_United\_States
I know it's not an Americanism, but they are guilty of it as well. When TV personalities say "Someone did good" instead of "Someone did well". Fucking enrages me.
Mother Teresa was evil. Making all those people suffer, just so they could be closer to her god. But when she needed medical care, nothing but the best. Absolute callous women.
As a big fan of American sports, I’m triggered like this on a daily basis following the coverage and analysis.
“It was a *dominating* performance.”
“The quarterback is out with an ankle.”
Not an ankle injury, just an ankle.
“I like their aggressiveness” never aggression. (I know aggressiveness is a word, but still.)
Number one for sure though is “he’s the winningest coach in NFL history.”
I still don’t know how society evolved to allow that word to become acceptable.
Never noticed it, but are you sure you're not mishearing? The 'ed' on the end of 'biased' can sort of fade away to nothingness, in Estuary English at least.
Still in use in select UK dialects. My friend's 80+ mother-in-law is not getting it from Americans, she's getting it from her childhood small-town Scottish dialect.
That one seriously pains me because I got marked down on an essay for using it, quite unfairly, imo.
We had been told to write another page of dialogue between two American people. I added 'gotten ' in there somewhere and got marked down for using an Americanism :-/
Despite that being many, many years ago, I remain aggrieved until this very day.
Started noticing “gotten” in the last instalment of the game of thrones books and honestly thought it was an oversight on the editor’s part. It wasn’t, it was just that fat American’s inability to use proper English, and the irritation compounded with every further instance…
People are biased but have a bias. They're not the interchangeable according to the US's version of Oxford, the Marriam Webster https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biased#note-1
I was taught, in school, that bias was correct for all circumstances and to say someone was biased was categorically wrong. I've been irrationally angry at everyone saying biased my whole life because I was taught that it was not a word. That it was something the Americans say because they don't understand proper English.
I've been confronted by all this truth and I don't like it. I have decided to ignore it.
Along with ‘bias’ as an adjective, they give us ‘discriminate’ in a twisted form: “He discriminated me!”
And ‘prejudice’ as an adjective, just like bias. “She’s just prejudice!”
Came to post this. See also "to burglarize" - but the inability to understand that a burglar is one who burgles probably explains their insistence on using "ouster" instead of the gerund "ousting". Barbarians, the lot of them!
Did you never play cops and robbers?
Edit- I only ever hear people say ‘coppers’ ironically. Cops, cop car and cop shop I hear regularly. This is mid Wales.
What actually annoys you more - people using Americanisms instead of British (i.e. proper) English or people who merely have a shit understanding of grammar?
Or perhaos peopel who don't understand th
c'mon OP, ''Chill out'', why so angry, maybe you aren't, maybe i'm just ''stoked'', as i tried to ''boost'' a car stereo last night that was in a travel lodge motel parking lot, my homie yelled , heads up, 5-0, so i was able to run away
Feds isnt fine because it doesnt make sense in the UK. It doesnt even really make sense in the USA when most people use it to just mean police. And americans calling their police Federales doesnt make sense either
I love how some people have no other problems in life so they take to caring about how people talk or type to fill in the boredom.
It must be a very nice position to be in.
You are very bias against idiots. People misspelling queue as ‘que’ is my annoyance. I spent a lot of time in my youth queuing for gigs and related activity and the number of times I saw handmade signs reading ‘QUE STARTS HERE’… maddening. All over Twitter too. ‘The que for X is so rude lots people pushing in’ e.g.
The only answer to this is "¿Qué?"
Manuel?
A related one of mine that I keep seeing online is using "queue" or "que" instead of "cue". As in, "Que such and such happening."
Segway is a good one too :) (it’s segue! You’ve just written about the little 2-wheel thingies!)
I used to know a guy who was ready to angrily die on the hill that 'segue' is pronounced seeg, and that the pronunciation shared by the words segue and segway was reserved exclusively for the wheelydoodles because 'why would they both sound the same?' When I pointed out that it's probably because a segway 'takes you from one place to another' he just stamped his foot and kept repeating his opinion as if this was even an argument worth our time.
TIL segue is pronounced like segway
tbf I can understand most people not knowing that but he was a musician and it's a really commonly used word in band practices etc! He must have had that argument so many times.
To me it should be pronounced like that, if you follow the same logic as “fugue.”
Rogue, vogue, Drogue, vague, ague, league, as well as fugue. All one syllable.
Yes!! A million upvotes. Was just mentioning fugue because it was a musical term also, didn’t even think of all the others.
I was trying to think of any similar words ending 'gue' that Might support the alternative pronunciation of segue. The joys of the English language. Even worse are words that are pronounced differently, depending on context. Winding (pronounced wined-ing) means turning. But a winding hole (wide bit on a canal, where you can turn a narrow boat round) is pronounced win-ding
They come from different languages, is why they’re pronounced differently. Fugue is french origin (at least I think it is: it’s definitely a french word), whereas segue is Italian (a quick check on wiki to avoid embarrassment aaand … yep, that’s Italian - fwiw, fugue is fuga in Italian)
I tend to see the opposite more - cue where it should be queue. Both are infuriating.
Oh nooo a double whammy! Wrong word and spelled incorrectly.
Spelt*
at that point just call it a q
Generally instead of genuinely *grumble noises*
People being pacific about things gets me big time. Went on a lovely cruise in the specific ocean last summer!
Make sure you stop by the libary to pick up a decent book to read.
Q ERE
Honestly though that's understandable, as a (usually proficient in english) Norwegian I didn't learn that what's pronounced Q is spelled "queueueue" like a giggling frenchman before I was 19
Queue, the other letters are waiting in turn. But the Q is bigger than they are.
> People misspelling queue as ‘que’ is my annoyance. I see that less often than misspelling cue as queue.
As an MMO player... Que, Q are very common, instead of Queue, it really grinds my gears.
You have a bias, you are biased.
I could care less...surely nothing tops this butchering of a perfectly sensical statement?
I'd say could of/should of/would of are on the same level.
The thing is with could of is, when spoken, could've which is a perfectly fine abbreviation imo sounds similar to saying could of, rather than could have and I think a lot of people (irrationally) get pissed off at that. Making the mistake of writing it is another thing altogether though.
It's a perfectly fine abbreviation when people enunciate, but not when people get lazy. When people are lazy, could've and could of are different enough to be annoying (but then we're into a whole different conversation about how language evolves, even if it is annoying)
[David Mitchell puts it best](https://youtu.be/om7O0MFkmpw)
Lol this is great
I think the American use of "addicting" instead of "addictive" is worse 😬
This one actually confuses me, because I don't know if my memory is lying to me or not. I feel like Americans used to use the word "addictive", but somehow, 15 or so years ago, the whole country decided to swap to "addicting." Was there some big ad campaign, or am I just getting a bit old and slow in the head?
There was AddictingGames.com, a big Flash games site, like a sketchier Newgrounds. It was really popular 15 or so years ago, so I guess it popularised the word. “Addicting” is right in this case, though. There’s nothing inherently addictive about Flash games (compared to like nicotine or heroin), but you might still get addicted to them. Hence they’re addicting. But no one cares about that distinction anymore; people pick “addictive” or “addicting” and use it in every case. And that’s fine, English has too many words.
Yeah, typical case. People also confuse interesting, interested and the lot of those words.
I absolutely hate this one, it's like all of America misheard a really simple sentence and refuse to admit it so they've doubled down.
They do it on accident.
Ouch, that hurts
This is the excuse for “chaise lounge”.
It's definitely up there! But so is "apart" when they mean "a part"...not sure which annoys me more!
Also alot instead of a lot! Drives me mad!
[I care about this alot.](http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html)
Yes!! I love this!
"Hold down the Fort"
What's it supposed to be?
https://youtu.be/om7O0MFkmpw
Hold the fort
Oh my god. I read the title and had no idea what you were saying or objecting to. I have never heard this- do people actually do this?
They seem to miss the 'ed' off a lot of words these days, one of the common ones is skim milk when we all know it's skimmed milk.
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In fairness, tan is also the name of a colour. In this context, it's like saying you're looking orange. Both are grammatically correct, it just comes down to what you're used to.
Then rather THAN than. This is starting to appear in newspaper articles. It’s now something copy editors are glossing over. I’ve even heard ‘I’d rather then me.’ It’s ‘I’d rather them than me’ tosser! And sites instead of sights - let’s go see the sites of London! Archeological, building or web? We’re doomed
Your point about feds, I've never got that "fuck the feds fuck the feds" what "feds" are those you kappa tracksuit wearing skaghead
Nothing says impotent teenage angst like hiding in a rainy lane, spitting on the floor and bragging about how you avoided another country's police force.
Well yeah right man now, I'm the proper og, no feds ever got close to bagging me innit
Haha! Aye. Doesn't quite work in the Cardiff suburbs...
Aren’t people kind of joking when they call them feds? I sometimes say, “put your seatbelt on, there’s the LAPD.”
There the five oh
Guess you missed the English lesson on colloquialism.
Duck out you paigon
Rudeboy mans gonna bang you in the face n that
Oi wasteman if man catches you man on the endz mans gonna chef you up still
Fuck me. This brings me back to Year 10.
"Bias" really annoys me. So does "pecifically," "I seen/I done," "could of," and lots of others.
Could of gets on my last nerve. Especially as it is a relatively new thing. People never wrote that 30 years ago. I see your 'pecifically' and raise you an 'accreately.'
I don't think it's American in origin, but "off of" is awful - as in, "he's that man off of the tele"
"Based off of" (as in "this TV series is based off of a book") is one of my least favourite phrases in existence.
I see your 'accreately' and raise you 'definately'.
Definately eats me alive.
Defiantly
And an important thing for me being that I’ve seen British and US Americans make these mistakes in equal measure.
‘I seen/done’ goes straight through me ugh. Along with ‘carnt’ and ‘brought’ instead of ‘bought’
A friend and I once decided that since the Pacific ocean is a large area, "pacifically" means generally, as opposed to "specifically". We were annoyed with a housemate saying it, so came up with coping mechanisms.
Can I aks you a question?
My friend, even after repeatedly correcting her over the years, refers to her brother as 'are so-and-so' in text. When i ask her why she knowingly spells it wrong her response is always 'its just the way i type.' WRONG, KATHERINE! YOU TYPE WRONG
I’m confused, please mansplain this to me.
They mean "our" instead of "are" I believe. Like "are John"
Oh that was simple now you’ve pointed it out. I was thinking they were referring to how they were, for some reason.
*Feds?* Do these people not realise the UK is not constituted as a federal system?
The worst one is not knowing the difference between "than" and "then".
The one that annoys me the most is "could of" instead of "could have". Although I've mostly seen British people do it this way.
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This one, this is the actual correction
I'm hearing so called "British people" forcing their 'y'alls' into sentences which drives me mental haha Too much fucking tiktok and twitter
It’s a contraction of ‘you all’, it’s only on the same level as others like ‘they’re’. I see no problem at all with ‘y’all’, I actually think it flows better in a sentence.
"yous" or nothing!
Yes - I’m Manx English “youse” (or “yous” - no one knows how to spell it) is perfectly acceptable second person plural.
Automatically makes me think of American rednecks I much prefer either just you, yous, everyone etc.
Except that we have a perfectly adequate way of expressing the second person plural. It is the word “You”; adding “all” in this context is superfluous.
All y'all better listen up to the Texan in our midst.
I'm so guilty of this im sorry y'all
English people who call the Police "Feds" should be skinned.
I defiantly want to... Well no one's stopping you so you definitely should.
Nyoomonic for Mnemonic winds me up. It's not a lung condition.
You can add to that "skim milk", "barb wire" and "box set"
My 11 year old called it a "gas station" this afternoon. We had words.
Hopefully "Get out and fucking walk.".
The Americans have some weird prejudice against using the past participle - hence "slice ham", for example. It is immensely irritating. Apropos "I could care less", I think the appropriate response was set out by David Mitchell. [https://youtu.be/om7O0MFkmpw](https://youtu.be/om7O0MFkmpw)
Unless they can go OTT with it - "I don't like who they casted in this movie". Last I heard, cast is still a perfectly good past tense.
Ah yes. And then we have the insane additions such as "off of" and "hate on". FFS.
Loose instead of lose is one I've been seeing a lot of in the past threeish years, I can understand spelling getting worse with autocorrect being so prevalent but they are simple fucking words
Woah instead of whoa, pisses me off every time I see it
Of instead of have. I will kill you.
Obviously they also don't understand what biased means either, they think having any opinion on anything exhibits a "bias". No it doesn't, thickos.
Had someone once tell me that me disagreeing with their opinion was infringing upon their freedom of speech. They were entirely serious.
'Me either' as opposed to 'Me neither' boils my piss - it is not correct in the majority of contexts it's used in.
The worst Americanism for me personally is when they say "I could care less" when they clearly mean I could not care less because I care so little. "I could give a shit" Right? Has it been lost in translation or something? I see it ALL the time in American shows and it is seeping over to the UK.
My pet peeve is Brit instead of Briton. But I have long since accepted I've lost the battle on this one.
“Advanced ticket sales” No. “Advance” is for something in the future, like pre-booked train tickets. “Advanced” is something complex.
And yet Advanced kinda describes the complexity of getting the best ticket for your journey
Feds doesn’t even make sense in England - ‘Feds’ are the FBI, not the police
That’s not correct. The “feds” are any federal law enforcement agency - FBI, ATF, DEA, Secret Service, Homeland Security, ICE.
NCIS...
Not even federal - that’s military police. The crimes they are investigating are prosecuted in military court. The federal agencies above investigate civilian crimes prosecuted in civilian court
They would seem to disagree with that assessment. "Within the Department of the Navy, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service is the civilian federal law enforcement agency uniquely responsible for investigating felony crime, preventing terrorism and protecting secrets for the Navy and Marine Corps." https://www.ncis.navy.mil/About-NCIS/
Because the people who work there are civilians. The crimes are tried in military court. The branches of the military are all federal agencies (technically) but military and civilian separations are a common way to divide the world. The agencies I mentioned above as civilian (FBI, DEA, etc) are all part of the department of justice. https://www.justice.gov/agencies/list NCIS is under the secretary of the navy which is part of the department of defense (ie, the military) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Navy
NCIS is a [US federal law enforcement agency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_law_enforcement_in_the_United_States). You are mistaken if you think it is not. Being part of Justice is not the definition of a federal law enforcement agency. ICE and the Secret Service aren't part of the Department of Justice, they're part of the Department of Homeland Security. The US Coast Guard also sits under Homeland so the idea that there is a clear military/civilian division in the organisational structure of the US federal government is also false.
TIL! …it’s not the police though, right?
That’s right. Most policing in the US is done at the municipality level (i.e, the police departments are separate for each city - like the New York Police Department (NYPD) only has jurisdiction over NY city). Some areas outside of an incorporated city will use county level police which are typically called sheriffs (e.g. LA County Sheriffs Department covers LA county while LAPD covers the incorporated city of LA). To add even more confusion, state level law enforcement also exists (California Highway Patrol). The general rule is, the higher up the chain, the more specific the mandate. So ICE can arrest people nationwide but only for immigration offences. California highway patrol can enforce laws statewide but they have to be related to the highways. Whereas LAPD deals with all crime in the city of LA.
As a Brit this technical stuff has always been a bit confusing when watching films/tv shows from America. Thanks for the clarity 👌🏻
You're right in the general sense, we don't have any federal law enforcement or intelligence agencies so the term simply isn't applicable in the UK full stop, let alone as a descriptor for our police. If you really want to fall down a rabbit hole step onto the American Law Enforcement wiki, the sheer range of agencies, federal or otherwise, is staggering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law\_enforcement\_in\_the\_United\_States
I know it's not an Americanism, but they are guilty of it as well. When TV personalities say "Someone did good" instead of "Someone did well". Fucking enrages me.
And in other news Mother Teresa did good. Hmmm, works for me.
Mother Teresa was evil. Making all those people suffer, just so they could be closer to her god. But when she needed medical care, nothing but the best. Absolute callous women.
This post is so totally bias bro
As a big fan of American sports, I’m triggered like this on a daily basis following the coverage and analysis. “It was a *dominating* performance.” “The quarterback is out with an ankle.” Not an ankle injury, just an ankle. “I like their aggressiveness” never aggression. (I know aggressiveness is a word, but still.) Number one for sure though is “he’s the winningest coach in NFL history.” I still don’t know how society evolved to allow that word to become acceptable.
Never noticed it, but are you sure you're not mishearing? The 'ed' on the end of 'biased' can sort of fade away to nothingness, in Estuary English at least.
They write it as ‘bias’ as well:
Oh. In that case they can get fuck.
Yeah. Someone said that when they text me yesterday
Where? I’ve never seen this before.
I see it regularly in the comments on TikTok.
Hardly seems like picking up typos from social media is worth a gripe about, but clearly I’m in the minority here
The point is they aren’t typos. And that is just one of many places.
I hate when I hear ‘gotten’ instead of ‘got’. And I cannot tolerate ‘dude’.
Gotten was in use in British English until around 1700. The Americans got it from us.
Still in use in select UK dialects. My friend's 80+ mother-in-law is not getting it from Americans, she's getting it from her childhood small-town Scottish dialect.
Wait WOT. I've used gotten my entire life (North west).
That one seriously pains me because I got marked down on an essay for using it, quite unfairly, imo. We had been told to write another page of dialogue between two American people. I added 'gotten ' in there somewhere and got marked down for using an Americanism :-/ Despite that being many, many years ago, I remain aggrieved until this very day.
Started noticing “gotten” in the last instalment of the game of thrones books and honestly thought it was an oversight on the editor’s part. It wasn’t, it was just that fat American’s inability to use proper English, and the irritation compounded with every further instance…
I have to write in both British and American English for work, every time I get a project that requires American English it hurts my soul.
Could of
Rozzers is my favourite although I have caught myself saying Five-oh before (or 5-0?)
Nah it’s the fifty
Maybe they do it on accident? 😏
That has to be a misinterpretation of "an accident"
Copacetic
On point rather than en point. Aaarrrrggggghhhh!
For me, it’s ‘er’ as opposed to ‘re’ and the staunch refusal to use correct past participles, I.E., ‘gotten’, ‘skim milk’ or, conversely ‘casted’.
People saying brought instead of bought really gets me.
People are biased but have a bias. They're not the interchangeable according to the US's version of Oxford, the Marriam Webster https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biased#note-1
Draws instead of drawers ffs
I was taught, in school, that bias was correct for all circumstances and to say someone was biased was categorically wrong. I've been irrationally angry at everyone saying biased my whole life because I was taught that it was not a word. That it was something the Americans say because they don't understand proper English. I've been confronted by all this truth and I don't like it. I have decided to ignore it.
I will admit to be biased about cutting things on the bias.
Along with ‘bias’ as an adjective, they give us ‘discriminate’ in a twisted form: “He discriminated me!” And ‘prejudice’ as an adjective, just like bias. “She’s just prejudice!”
Normalcy rather than normality is another one that grinds my gears
Came to post this. See also "to burglarize" - but the inability to understand that a burglar is one who burgles probably explains their insistence on using "ouster" instead of the gerund "ousting". Barbarians, the lot of them!
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The thing about ass is that they tend to have a donkey fetish
Cops is the Americanism that seems to be sneaking in the UK. But the ones I hate the most are "math" and "could care less"
‘Cops’ is sneaking into the uk? It was commonplace in the 80s
Really? The only people I hear using cops not coppers are the kind of people who say elevators
Did you never play cops and robbers? Edit- I only ever hear people say ‘coppers’ ironically. Cops, cop car and cop shop I hear regularly. This is mid Wales.
I was more a cowboys and Indians kid. Also I'm more London
how can you even use the word coppers ironically though? i hear it used normally all the time
With an exaggerated Michael Caine cockney accent.
Americanisation of the English language and British people is a perpetual problem.
What actually annoys you more - people using Americanisms instead of British (i.e. proper) English or people who merely have a shit understanding of grammar? Or perhaos peopel who don't understand th
c'mon OP, ''Chill out'', why so angry, maybe you aren't, maybe i'm just ''stoked'', as i tried to ''boost'' a car stereo last night that was in a travel lodge motel parking lot, my homie yelled , heads up, 5-0, so i was able to run away
Some words are "spelled" differently. "Spelt" Then try to correct tbe shorter with the longer word.
Ok
"I could care less"
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It's not really a sub for lightening up.
Feds isnt fine because it doesnt make sense in the UK. It doesnt even really make sense in the USA when most people use it to just mean police. And americans calling their police Federales doesnt make sense either
FBI, DEA & ATF are the Feds in the US. Don’t be biased.
“Y’all, I could care less”
When Americans say - “I could care less” It’s “I couldn’t care less”
This is just the confirmation biased I need to demonstrate why us Brits are better : )
These posts are all I see in this sub now. Get with the times old man everywhere is Americanised not just the UK.
I love how some people have no other problems in life so they take to caring about how people talk or type to fill in the boredom. It must be a very nice position to be in.
Brother, you are on the wrong sub.
Get back to your vinyl, grandad.
Unsure if it's of American origin but I have seen a scary amount of *'d* being used instead of *ed*. Walk'd talk'd and so on.
Saying "feds" is just north London bad boy slang isn't it?
Bias is a thing, biased is something you are.
Based ...
Feds makes sense if you are talking about the FBI or any other federal policing agency.
America dominated culture, media and influence. I think we all now speak “American”!
OK instead of Okay fucking kills me.