Hated American Expressions that have arrived over here...

[Silent Bob]

YES - I REALLY REALLY HATE THAT



but - the one that REALLY GETS ME is when instead of saying "That's odd", they say "random....!"

EVERYONE IS SAYING IT IN LONDON

Is "weird" acceptable?

 

[clapham_gull]

Is "weird" acceptable?

NO, especially when when lengthened into a "weeiiird"

 

[Ice Man]

NO, especially when when lengthened into a "weeiiird"

That's a weeeeeeiiiiiiiirrrrrrdddd way to say it.

 

[clapham_gull]

I find myself slipping into it sometimes and I AM FULL OF SELF HATRED, you know, kind of like I want to, you know, like check out some therapy.

 

[Silent Bob]

NO, especially when when lengthened into a "weeiiird"

I'm the lesser of two evils at least.

 

[cheeseroll]

I said "the big picture" the other day in a meeting, i knew it was coming i just couldnt avoid it.

thankfully i have never said:-

"step up to the plate"
"push the evelope"
"think outside the box"

 

[Icy Gull]

have a nice day y`all

OWNED by Billy Connollys - "missing you already"

 

[jevs]

I detest the yanks spelling of the word mum....they spell it either mom or mam and boy that fucks me off.

As mentioned, mayo bloody annoys me too (not the player !!!)

And anyone who uses the Australiaism "thisarvo" instead of this afternoon should have their f***ing fingernails pulled out.

Mind you, the text message i got from my 16 year old step daughter was blinding.......

"wen i gt bk 2 skol il hav 2 get da bus den walk so duno wat time il be bk"

It's martian talk i'm sure of it !!!

 

[Frutos]

I've heard this both here and in the US, so I'm not sure where it originated, but I'm going to nominate the f***ing annoying practice of saying "like" as every other word of the sentence, and not usually in the way it's meant to be used either.

"That was, like, well annoying"

So what just happened wasn't actually annoying in and of itself, it was just LIKE/SIMILAR TO something that is annoying?

 

[Shegull]

Oh my Goddddddddddddd

 

[NMH]

I detest the yanks spelling of the word mum....they spell it either mom or mam and boy that fucks me off.

"wen i gt bk 2 skol il hav 2 get da bus den walk so duno wat time il be bk"

It's martian talk i'm sure of it !!!

Well, your natural use of 'boy' was also an Americanism, buddy!

And the bit from your daughter was less American than English, it looks suspiciously to me like 'chavspeak'!

Y'all LURVE them quaint sayin's, people, and gad-dang it, you'll be callin' it like it is from here on in. Darrrn tootin'.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Rather than being some kind of pivotal moment, I think that's the
How so inferior to our very English reported speech vernacular: "So I goes - ... then he goes .... "

If we're going to slag our own ones off, a few of my mates used to really piss me off by constantly using the word 'time'. "I haven't been there for time" or "I haven't seen him for time". HOW MUCH TIME YOU TWAT, 5 seconds? 5 years?
Another one that the same people say all the time is 'well alright', which gets on my tits even more. "That's well alright". So it's not actually that good then is it? COCK.