a1oku

I thought I was living in England!Why do so many threads,especially the crap racist joke threads,have Americanisms in them with references to bartenders,blocks,math instead of maths,zee instead of zed etc etc???Do we really admire the colonials so much that we copy their feeble attempts at English!!!We have barman or barstaff,we have streets not blocks,we have maths and we say zed,not zee!!!Thats a big 10-4.

16vmarc

Tissues?

Julz1983

Blame Tony Blair

Butkus

My pet hate word is 'movie'. It's used all the time now on the radio and on television. It's a 'film' in England.

Oh, and 'anyways'. Should be 'anyway'.

OK, enough moaning.

JTaylor

I think you mean Americanization.

wayne9t9

I blame the hip-hop....all that hippin` an` a hoppin` bippin` an` a boppin`....

astraboy

Couldnt agree with you more.
Oh and police are not "Cops", they are Coppers!
astraboy.

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

I have recently started refusing to respond to either of my sons who insist on referring to a pair of trainers as "sneakers". Bah!

Alcazar

Apparition

And as for those Poor souls on X Factor who HAVE ....Simply HAVE TO sing with American accents.......
Yve

Julz1983

LMAO, if you mean the one on x factor tonight who was in the "duo" with that lass, the bloke with the funny mouth movements, he was so funny, i was laughing at him, its awful really, you should really feel sorry for them

mattstant

THE Worst example is SOCCER !!!!!!!!
I will refuse point blank to EVER refer to the game of FOOTBALL as Soccer.
A game that is played with the feet and a ball simple !.
Not with 40 inbred body armoured steroid abusers without the wit to even play offence and defence with the same team who carry an oblong shaped ball????? over a line to score a touchdown when they dont actually touch down anything (wtf??).
40 odd billion people play Football not american softie rugby
invent some ****ty generic name like "oblong ball" and **** off back to the states and pretend you're world champions at your own designated crap sports

Jerome

Hey buddy, there ain't no reason to git stressed out about Americanisms.

Walk a few blocks down the sidewalk in your sneakers, sit down on the hood of an automobile, and have an ice cap to cool you down bro.

Having just recently arrived back in Blighty, I've noticed a large amount of US TV, er sorry, television programmes. Because of this, it is inevitable I'm afraid. Just wait until British kids use the word "like" as much as North Americans do (20% of their spoken words). It's like going to be like awful man!

sid the snake

Yo man..agree with all the above ...Dude..must go and put the trash out in the yard

jods

God damn **** - I'm gonna pop a cap in yo *** if you diss our retard cousins agin y'all.

RoRu

I was listening to radio 2 the other day and on the news they referred to prison a jail, you would of thought that the BBC would be last place you would hear such an Americanism

Dieseldog

The use of the 'word' "Whit" instead of "with" by various Rythym and Blues, Rapping types.

The anger's welling up inside me as we speak...

wayne9t9

Soccer is an abbreviation for Association Football. The Football Association was formed in London in October 1863 when representatives of eleven clubs and schools met in an attempt to standardize the rules of the game. One of the rules prohibited the carrying of the ball, a rule that would lead to the Rugby-oriented clubs leaving the Association several months later. The name Association Football was coined to distinguish it from Rugby.

By 1889, the abbreviation socca' was in use, and the spelling soccer had made its appearance by 1895.

And before anyone mentions "aluminum", it was invented in Sheffield and was originally called aluminum not aluminium. The "i" was added later.

Dieseldog

... and "axe" instead of "ask". Honestly, if these young men would spend a little less money on gold ornaments and televisions for their big off road vehicles, and a little more on elocution lessons I'm sure they could do a lot better...

Billgtt

The ones that wind me up the most are people who call their car's "rides". Surely you drive a car, not ride it.

And also, those people who stick the word "so" in the middle of a sentence. eg: "I so want to kill people that can't talk properly"

JackClark

The spelling of the Jail you heard would have been gaol and as such would be correct. Your term Prison can be traced back to “the action or power of making an arrest.” nothing to do with a house of correction.

RoRu

You learn something new every day

Leslie

Pity to see our form of english mangled though.

Les

Bubba po

English, Leslie.

Reality

I've even started saying Edinboro too .


Just be thankful the Americans won the last war and not the Germans

Big Den

Have you also noticed how Americans constantly use the word AND!!!

And (Grrrrr!!) do they love their acronyms!!

Flatcapdriver

The BBC has taken to referring to mobiles as cell phones recently which lit my fuse but its not as bad as Autocar talking about filling up with gas. Its getting more and more like Ozmerica over here and if some **** asks me about an apartment again I'll bloody well brain them.

Flatcapdriver

Did they do that single handedly or are we now into deeply revisionist history?

Reality

In 20 years time that's what all the history books (sponsored by Halliburton) will tell you

suprabeast

However it was accepted across most of the world as Aluminum, except the English didnt like it because it didnt tie in with the other elements such as titanium etc therefore us English called it Aluminium

wayne9t9

Thanks for the info ... What about the old chestnut, the billion/trillion thing. Nine or twelve zero`s ??: