50 Americanisms That Brits Apparently Hate
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I would like to remind those who contributed to this list that even the "proper" English they claim to speak is a bastardized version of the original English language, and therefore they should shut up before their feet fly into their mouths at such speeds that their tongues are crushed beyond repair, making it so they can't even speak at all.
I'm a brit and I do a lot of these things. But I also find other americanisms annoying. It's subjective lol
The grammar ones I can agree with, most of them sound like petty nit-picking though. The reactions are all gold though.
That's an accent, not an "americanism". Just as pronunciation differs slightly between areas Britian it differs in the U.S. as well. Here in the west,(as i am assuming you are in the south) you would be publicly mocked for saying "y'all".airplanedude550 said:
Why do Brits say "bugger" and "bloody hell" all the time? It makes no sense!!!AverageJoe said:
Try finding the coach station in glasgow. I asked about 5 people before i learned my lesson and asked for where the "big busses" are and got the answer straight away 
Well, I have met a handful of Irish and British people in my lifetime and I see Canadians with moderate frequency, but not once have I sat down with them and sang the ABCs. Well, once, but that was in Preschool and she probably just sang "zee" with the rest of us because that's what the teacher said. In fact, the only time I've heard the pronunciation "zed" out loud was when listening to stand up comedy. So yeah, the random anecdotes are supposed to be saying that it isn't that surprising that the pronunciation of a letter isn't a part of the average American's consumption of foreign media.squeekenator said:
I found both the list and the reactions hilarious. These are the sort of morons who'd rarely leave their homes. Hell, they'd probably never go to the north of England (past Birmingham, I'd be surprised if they made it as far as Manchester) as the accents alone would terrify them, let along any of the slang. People like this arn't worth any attention.
Still, I do find some 'Americanisms' (I doubt the average American uses most of them), a bit pointless. Deplane? Really? what's wrong with disembark?
This article was in responce to another equally silly article about how words have made it across the pond and some people hate them, like Talented for example. I see nothing wrong with that word, it's quite useful after all. 24/7 is simply a quicker way of saying 24 Hours, 7 Days and again useful.
Still, I do find some 'Americanisms' (I doubt the average American uses most of them), a bit pointless. Deplane? Really? what's wrong with disembark?
This article was in responce to another equally silly article about how words have made it across the pond and some people hate them, like Talented for example. I see nothing wrong with that word, it's quite useful after all. 24/7 is simply a quicker way of saying 24 Hours, 7 Days and again useful.
90% of those are reasonable complaints. Also, they weren't all British people complaining.
I love it when people get pissed at Britain for us getting annoyed when people make your language make no fucking sense any more. Why is Aluminium spelt 'Aluminum' if it isn't pronounced that way?
I love it when people get pissed at Britain for us getting annoyed when people make your language make no fucking sense any more. Why is Aluminium spelt 'Aluminum' if it isn't pronounced that way?
Riiiiight....
English people are just xenophobic. Nothing new. And most of them tend to be quite elitist about which country is better. Quite scary.
English people are just xenophobic. Nothing new. And most of them tend to be quite elitist about which country is better. Quite scary.
Well, a pet peeve of mine, as a Northerner currently living in the South, is when people misspell "y'all". "Ya'll" makes no sense, mate.airplanedude550 said:
(BTW, what's the deal with "turn that off"? What's wrong with that?)
That one i think she just screwing with them, but now i want to use fortnightly in a conversation, also i think i would unconsciously do these things in an effort to annoy english/british peopleShock and Awe said:
Most of these are clearly tounge-in-cheek. I do wish folks would stop using this as an excuse to insult my country.
[sup]I do die a little inside any time an Englishman pronounces "z" as "zee", though.[/sup]
Also, I might add, some of these appear to be by Americans and Canadians. Silly Yanks. Them Canadians are 'aight though. Commonwealth, represent!
[sup]I do die a little inside any time an Englishman pronounces "z" as "zee", though.[/sup]
Also, I might add, some of these appear to be by Americans and Canadians. Silly Yanks. Them Canadians are 'aight though. Commonwealth, represent!
Yes, and all Americans are clearly fat. Please don't pigeon hole an entire fucking country.Goldeneye103X2 said:
He is right on one point though: it sounds silly when you say it out loud. It seems kind of a redundant word, regardless. I can't think of an instance you'd say gotten when you could just say got instead.Heartcafe said:
As a Brit I see this as seriously dumb, the arguments here are utterly petty. I think the only time I ever cringed at an Amaricanism was in Alpha Protocol when all the main characters kept pronouncing Moscow as Moss-cow. Oh yeah then why don't we go to Lon-don and My-amy ffs.
Wow, some of these people have sticks so far up their asses it's a wonder they're not poking out the top of their heads.
No, it means they're of a particular distillation of German ancestry, Pennsylvania Deutsch, elided over time to be Pennsylvania Dutch. People who live there know full well what it means. At least, those for whom it matters do.Jacco said:
Although yes, I'll give you the general problem that over time people forget that elided letters are meant to exist. I do say "I could care less", and until I saw wank about this online I never realized that people have actually forgotten that the letters "n" and "t" exist in it, and not simply that they don't pronounce them. I wonder if some day people will forget that "kinda" means "kind of"?