American terms

[fatbadger]

TeamGB has to be the most idiotic US-style thing we have adopted. I hate it with a passion. I will not be supporting TeamGB at the next, or any other Olympics, although I may wish all of the British athletes well.

As others have pointed out, many things we might think of as American are actually British (obvious example, soccer - but 'fall' for autumn is my favourite).

As for anybody who is getting all upset over the loss of tradition over Mothering Sunday/Mother's Day, how many of you go a-mothering? None of you, I suspect. You probably don't even know what it means. But then, Mothering Sunday had pretty much died out by the beginning of the 20th century. That we have any kind of Mothering Sunday or Mother's Day nowadays is because our North American cousins introduced Mother's Day to us and we took it up on the same date as Mothering Sunday used to be celebrated.

 

[philsussex]

It really annoys me that our high street shops are advertising this coming Sunday as Mothers Day. They would be correct if we were all in America but to us in the UK it is Mothering Sunday always is and always will be. When I was a child we went to Sunday morning church and was given a posy of primroses and Bluebells to give to our mums. Now it is a comercialised way for florists, card shops and sweet shops to have a killing at inflated prices.

And was it always Fathering Sunday too?

That just sounds wrong!

 

[auschr]

My sig was referring to the series, i.e. the whole show, starting proper (there was an advance preview of the pilot episode back in december).



You also have a football season, is that pretentious? It is after all just one year of a repeating league system. Why not call it a league this year is a league, next year we be a league, the year after will be a league.

take a chill pill friend

 

[philsussex]

Anyway, we've had more influence on them than they have us. After all, nearly all the words they use come from us originally. We should charge them for that.

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

Just wait until Team USA beat Team England at sahka on 06/12/10 !

 

[Stumpy Tim]

2. The way that our schools now have a 'Prom night' at the end of the academic year, with silly screaming girls turning up in a stretch limo that their weak parents have agreed to fork out for to keep their 'little princess' happy.

What's wrong with teenage girls enjoying a night to celebrate the end of school? I don't get the problem with that. And hiring a limo costs maybe 100 quid, which between 5 girls would be 20 quid per parent. Hardly a massive expense.

 

[footychick]

My daughter who's 5 made a paper flower for me at school and it said 'Happy Mothering Sunday' on the tag, bless.

 

[DerbyGull]

2 blocks down, 3 over.
I love american terminology. Very to the point, no nonsense.

 

[defrocked priest]

Dude.

Dude?

wtf ?

I ain't yer flippin' Dude.

Yanks.

 

[Juan Albion]

I hate the way the Brits assume all the stuff they are importing is from the US. It might just be Canadian, eh?

 

[defrocked priest]

I hate the way the Brits assume all the stuff they are importing is from the US. It might just be Canadian, eh?

Such as ?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Such as ?

Maple syrup.

 

[defrocked priest]

Maple syrup.

And seal meat and pelts.

Surley the neighbours to JA south also partake in the countrys number one export? hmm ??

 

[clapham_gull]

Current annoyance of mine is the use of the word cookie when they quite obviously mean biscuit.

There are far too many vice presidents in this country as well.

We also seem to lost our ability to stay patient in a queue, having been world champions at that for many years.

I was once in an Italian Coffee shop (which we have our own history of in this country), where somebody asked "can I get" a sandwich, "on brown" with "mayo".

This was all to somebody Polish behind the counter.

I could have sworn they were wearing an ironic gola bag probably containing an I-Phone.

 

[defrocked priest]

Current annoyance of mine is the use of the word cookie when they quite obviously mean biscuit.

Crisps and chips threw me for a doozy when I visited NYC. Sakes

 

[smudge]

When something is advertised as "ALL NEW". f*** that's annoying.
On the news I saw that a load of cruise liner guests had become "sickened". Is this a word?
Another one; New Orleans Saints had their "winningest" season.
They're still f***ing making words up!

 

[smudge]

I hate the way the Brits assume all the stuff they are importing is from the US. It might just be Canadian, eh?

Canadian eh?
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A fair few Canadians working on here. They like a drink eh?

 

[clapham_gull]

When something is advertised as "ALL NEW". f*** that's annoying.
On the news I saw that a load of cruise liner guests had become "sickened". Is this a word?
Another one; New Orleans Saints had their "winningest" season.
They're still f***ing making words up!

proaction, proactionate etc..

"Owners" of tasks, deliverables etc.. all complete bollocks.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Historically, "Mothering Sunday" had nothing whatsoever to do with mothers. It was the fourth Sunday of Lent (Laetare Sunday), when people gathered in their local cathedral (the "mother church" of the diocese) to honour the Virgin Mary.

It died out in England, with the suppression of Catholicism, but was widely celebrated throughout Catholic Europe.

 

[ArfurW8]

Dont know if the word "snuck" is American,but it seems to have crept into our vocabulary,that word really annoys me.

Its sneaked !