Annoying Americanisms

[RedKnight]

You're right there RK. Even more annoying is when spellcheck corrects your correct spelling to make it the wrong american spelling.

 

Exactly, where and when did they think randomly dropping letters from words would be a clever thing? Did they think that by doing so they'd create their own language? Arrogant bastards.

[Elmyn Noos]

Exactly, where and when did they think randomly dropping letters from words would be a clever thing? Did they think that by doing so they'd create their own language? Arrogant bastards.

 

It makes my fucking blood boil the more I think about it. from now on, I'm randomly adding and dropping letters every time I make reference to anything hailing from the Cunted Shits of Americunt.

[Harry Squatter]

I was in a meeting in work yesterday and some tit used the following "Ball park figure", then went on about a hard case where a solicitor had been awkward and said "We may need to do this at a later date if they send us another curve-ball" FUCK OFF.

[Harry Squatter]

I worked on a kids camp in New York State one summer and they would get excited over the most ridiculously mundane event. If someone got the last packet of Cheerios they would celebrate like winning the Superbowl. They had entertainers later on in the night and they were all ridiculously hyperactive they would make Tony Little the American fitness trainer look like Jimmy White's dead brother. The American workers there would high five each other over fuck all and just because we weren't hypo like them they all thought we were on valium. Plus the only music they would play would be stuff like John Cougar Mellencamp and Bruce Springsteen, basically anything ultra american. There were a few eastern european workers on the camp and the americans tried showing them how to use a hairdryer and turn on a telly because they genuinely believed that they had not seen one before.

[BENIRL]

Do what now

Period

 

You can call them wankers all day and it's cool because they don't know what it means.

[Section_31]

We had an American teacher in school when I was about 10, and she used to say 'look-it' all the time.

 

If she wanted your attention she'd tap the chalk on the board and say 'Okay class look-it!'

 

Baffling.

[Soleilrouge]

freakin

 

as in get with the freakin programme

[Original202]

I hate it when they say stuff like:

 

Liverpool signs Spanish striker Fernando Torres, or, Liverpool wins the English Premier (Pronounced like totally wrongly) League.

 

Signs? Wins? It's sign and win.

[Section_31]

I hate it when they say stuff like:

 

Liverpool signs Spanish striker Fernando Torres, or, Liverpool wins the English Premier (Pronounced like totally wrongly) League.

 

Signs? Wins? It's sign and win.

 

Pri-mere

[RedKnight]

Arse-e-nal.

[Harry Squatter]

Every American i've ever met on holiday always has a businesscard, even if they are a binman.

[SammyAftershave]

Has there ever been a more infantile display of spitting the dummy out than renaming 'French Fries' to 'Freedom Fries' simply because the French refused to blithely follow them into an illegal war. Why not just call them chips in the first place? Probably because they didn't read the manual and found, in hindsight, they had already squandered the perfectly apt 'chips' on fucking 'crisps'. Now they've got the word 'crisps' wandering around the language, scratching it's arse and wondering what the fuck to do with itself. It's a cryin shame I tell ya.

In fairness, 'felching' is an awesome word. Full marks for that one...Or maybe that's French?

[Guest davelfc]

Has there ever been a more infantile display of spitting the dummy out than renaming 'French Fries' to 'Freedom Fries' simply because the French refused to blithely follow them into an illegal war. Why not just call them chips in the first place? Probably because they didn't read the manual and found, in hindsight, they had already squandered the perfectly apt 'chips' on fucking 'crisps'. Now they've got the word 'crisps' wandering around the language, scratching it's arse and wondering what the fuck to do with itself. It's a cryin shame I tell ya.

In fairness, 'felching' is an awesome word. Full marks for that one...Or maybe that's French?

 

Negged for defending the french

[RobbieOR]

Every American i've ever met on holiday always has a businesscard, even if they are a binman.

 

And they were one of the first with "cell phones".

[RedBrian84]

Not entirely unrelated- Bill Bryson's book, "Made In America" is all about the history of the English language in the United States, complete with all "Americanisms" that either annoy you or don't. I'm reading it at the minute and it's fucking brilliant, and is actually quite surprising when you realise what words and phrases the Americans have introduced into most English-speaking tongues.

 

But there are some Americanisms that wind me up, like "hold the mayo", and "y'all". Grrr.

[Ginny]

Ok, so the Yanks are a pretty annoying with the new language.

 

But, i think they're fuckin great. They have give the world so much

[Stu Monty]

Skinner knows:

 

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[RobbieOR]

Not entirely unrelated- Bill Bryson's book, "Made In America" is all about the history of the English language in the United States, complete with all "Americanisms" that either annoy you or don't. I'm reading it at the minute and it's fucking brilliant, and is actually quite surprising when you realise what words and phrases the Americans have introduced into most English-speaking tongues.

 

But there are some Americanisms that wind me up, like "hold the mayo", and "y'all". Grrr.

 

I read a book called mccarthys bar(its an irish book). Its about about all the pubs in Ireland taht are called Mccarthys. anyway there was a brillaint joke about about a stupid american thinking County Mayo in connaught is where mayo is made.

[Chris]

[Unrighteous]

Pri-mere

 

I dunno... I have a weird way of speaking but I say "Prem-ear" I think.

[neko]

as a canadian, i have to say the ones that bother me most about americans probably don't even register with you lot.

 

when i lived there, i had a test where i asked "what you call the part of the house above the walls".

 

if they answered roof - pronounced 'ruff' then i'd start thinking of ways to dispose of their body.

 

the other question was "what is your national capital city". of course, some wouldn't get the right answer, but they always seem to add an 'R' as in "warshington".

 

and they make fun of us saying 'aboot' ??? we don't even say it that way. i'm convinced that not only are they generally shit at spelling and geography, but i think they are deaf as well.

[Unrighteous]

as a canadian, i have to say the ones that bother me most about americans probably don't even register with you lot.

 

when i lived there, i had a test where i asked "what you call the part of the house above the walls".

 

if they answered roof - pronounced 'ruff' then i'd start thinking of ways to dispose of their body.

 

the other question was "what is your national capital city". of course, some wouldn't get the right answer, but they always seem to add an 'R' as in "warshington".

 

and they make fun of us saying 'aboot' ??? we don't even say it that way. i'm convinced that not only are they generally shit at spelling and geography, but i think they are deaf as well.

 

I don't want to get into the subtle annoying yank-speak.

[Original202]

Can I get a coffee in a "to-go" cup?

 

Fuck off.

[RobbieOR]

as a canadian, i have to say the ones that bother me most about americans probably don't even register with you lot.

 

when i lived there, i had a test where i asked "what you call the part of the house above the walls".

 

if they answered roof - pronounced 'ruff' then i'd start thinking of ways to dispose of their body.

 

the other question was "what is your national capital city". of course, some wouldn't get the right answer, but they always seem to add an 'R' as in "warshington".

 

and they make fun of us saying 'aboot' ??? we don't even say it that way. i'm convinced that not only are they generally shit at spelling and geography, but i think they are deaf as well.[/quote]

 

Hence the south park joke.

[neko]

okay - time to turn the tables here.

 

my wife is english, my parents are english and my older sisters were born in england. i am proudly the first canadian in my family.

 

my issue with the english pronunciation of words can be tested with the following....

 

1.) caribbean

 

2.) himalayas

 

in my way of thinking, the english are much more inclined to roll between the syllables, where americans and canadians tend to pronunciate each syllable more harshly.

 

for me, caribbean is pronounced carib-be-in, not care-ah-bee-en, yet i've been laughed at by my english relatives (twats).

 

himalayas should be the same, but i admit to saying it him-a-lay-ahs, but i've heard my relatives say himall-e-ays.

 

it's all fucked up, but i'd hardly call the english a model of consistency and perfection.