What americanisms do you hate?

[Easy 10]

And as someone mentioned earlier, thanking "GAAAAAD" for every pissing thing that goes right in their lives. "uhhh, ahh'd laak to thaaank ma Maw, ma Paw, aall ma family and friends, I luuurv you gaa's. But most of aahl, ahh'd laak to thank GAAAAD for this award."

 

[pasty]

Useless fact number 38

"Xenophobes" is an anagram of "phone boxes"

 

[US Seagull]

how can you lot slag off americans, yes there are some differences, but listen to geordies, taffs, scousers, jocks, cockneys, yokils - a lot of them don't speak Queens English never mind another country - next you'll be complaining that the French speak French! It is another country, their language their rules...

BUT SOCCER FFS - that is bad!

I'll be sure to forward this post to the president of everybody here's behalf. I'm sure once he realizes just how much this pisses of a such an important collection of bored soccer...ermm...I mean football fans I'm sure he'll want to amend the constitution to fix it.
Not everywhere is England. Get over it.
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Although I have to admit when people say things like:
"I know where that's at"
or:
"I don't know where he's at"
It makes my blood boil

 

[Easy 10]

We're quite entitled to get pissed off and irritated at other countries and their stupid ways of talking. If they all talked proper like what we does, there'd be no problem. Innit.

 

[Curious Orange]

Fanny.

Plenty of fun with that word!!

 

[chips and gravy]

This thread is sumfink else

 

[teaboy]

Mis-pronunciation of simple English place names.

Lysester Square, Glauwster Road - 2 places I've been asked directions to in the last week.


Also the total inability to understand why the world hates America and the sense-of-humour bypass most Americans have.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

When I throw a rock, it usually takes a couple of mates to help lift the thing.

Americans manage it on their own and it turns out to be the size of a pebble.

Incidentally, you can always fight back against the "London, England" stuff - by referring to "Hollywood, America", to distinguish it from Hollywood, Birmingham (which, as I'm sure marvin can confirm, is not far from California, Birmingham).

That's Birmingham, England, btw.

 

[Easy 10]

When I throw a rock, it usually takes a couple of mates to help lift the thing.

Americans manage it on their own and it turns out to be the size of a pebble.

I have no idea what that means.

 

[bhaexpress]

That stupid f***ing thing american woman do with their necks when they're arguing with someone - they kind of face forward and shift their heads from side to side as if they're Egyption, before uttering some banility like "talk to the HAND".

Mine doesn't, she just head butts you.

 

[bhaexpress]

Fanny.

Plenty of fun with that word!!

'Fag' is the word that gets them to most, especially when you say it's something you put in your mouth.

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Is the a ryder cup coming up?

 

[Brovion]

Saying "Who is this?" when they mean "Who are you?". Saying
"Who is this?" means they are asking the other person to guess who they are.

'Upcoming' instead of 'forthcoming'.

'Slated' instead of 'earmarked'. I once completely misunderstood an American colleague when she said Manchester had been slated for a conference, I thought she meant it had been slagged off.

When telling the time: 'Ten after five' (for example) as opposed to ten past five.

'Math' not 'Maths'. Actually they may be correct there but so what.

Assuming they won WW2 single-handed.

Apart from that I always use American spellings where possible, especially center and color.

 

[Paddy B]

When I throw a rock, it usually takes a couple of mates to help lift the thing.

Americans manage it on their own and it turns out to be the size of a pebble.

Incidentally, you can always fight back against the "London, England" stuff - by referring to "Hollywood, America", to distinguish it from Hollywood, Birmingham (which, as I'm sure marvin can confirm, is not far from California, Birmingham).

That's Birmingham, England, btw.

That annoys me intensly

London, England - Paris, France etc

It implies that two of (quite possibly) the most important cities in history need to be distinguished from some one horse town in the middle of Arkansas

 

[US Seagull]

That annoys me intensly

London, England - Paris, France etc

It implies that two of (quite possibly) the most important cities in history need to be distinguished from some one horse town in the middle of Arkansas

Well when just about every major (and many minor) city in the entire world has a namesake in the US, including Brighton (these few returned by mapquest):

Brighton, NY Brighton, CO
Brighton, MI Brighton, AL
Brighton, AR Brighton, FL
Brighton, IA Brighton, IL
Brighton, MO Brighton, TN

Then yes it is important to distinguish which city you are talking about when talking in America. Because of that it becomes a habit which carries over when no distinction is really needed, such as "I visited Buckingham Palace in London, England" - hardly likely to confuse it with the Buckingham Palace in London, OH.

 

[FamilyGuy]

The letter "z" in words where an "s" should be - as in "specialize"

The pronounciation of the word "mirror" as "mirrrr" (wtf!)

The fact that they are the only country that refuse to dip their flag in salute to the Olympic flag in the opening ceremony (The American Flag is lowered to nobody)

 

[crasher]

No one has yet mentioned the most evil Americanism of them all....met with, as in "The President met with his advisors yesterday".

No - he just met them.

Why use an extra word for no reason?
Now everyone uses it over here too, including the BBC. I hate it and I won't rest until it's eradicated.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....

 

[Tenngull]

I've lived in the US for 15 years and have got used to most of those you've mentioned, but they all got up my nose at first.

But the one that still gets to me is the word 'winningest', as in 'The winningest coach in college basketball.' and stuff like that.

 

[bhafc99]

Is London England in Yurp?

(That's Europe to us btw).

 

[MRSBHA]

i cant really reply to this thread even though bha wants me to lose my temper everyone has the right to thier opinions.

i mean the thing that i hate about englishmen would be words like
wanker, bloody hell, end of, take it as read. i mean come on does it really make a difference about how people talk as long as they speak when spoken to.