Americanism

For me the worse one of them all is "Where you at", popularized in various American movies with some kind of bad boys in it. When someone calls me on my phone and says "Where you at". I just ignore them until the they decide to use the correct form.
 
"Where you at dude?" is in fact originally old English. And was frequently used by Queen Victoria to her homies.
 
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I'm not sure why she asked them though. Because either they would have had to have been right in front of her, or she wrote it down and sent it via messenger, who must already know where they at.
 
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DudleyBug said:
For me the worse one of them all is "Where you at", popularized in various American movies with some kind of bad boys in it. When someone calls me on my phone and says "Where you at". I just ignore them until the they decide to use the correct form.
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I've always thought I was being told to "wear my hat". Thanks for the clarification ;)
 
Because them telling me to have a nice day won't make it nice. It's the same as waiters and waitresses who deliver your food to the table and tell you to 'enjoy'.

There are other factors involved - such as the quality of the food.


Steve.
 
Husband watches the American Football. They say "deefense" (emphasis on the dee) instead of "defence", same with "OFFense".

Grinds my gears almost as much as the game does.
 
My sister-in-law moved to Canada 10 years ago.

When she came to visit last year, she told me she wanted a new purse. It was a good half an hour before I realised she meant "handbag".

Then,
Me: "So what do you call a proper purse?"
SIL: "Wallet."
Me: "No, that's what a man has."
SIL: "Or a coin purse."

I erupted in laughter at the term "coin purse".
 
I dislike, "Can I get?" when ordering food. OH does it. It makes me want to get stabby.
 
I started to write this post by saying that I'm really not that bothered by pronunciation / use of language and that there's only one thing that really irritates me . . . since starting to type, I've had to amend that view because I've just thought of two more.
Give me a bit more time and I'll probably be able to come up with a whole list, so maybe I'm far more uptight about this than I originally thought I was :D

> specific - pronounced as pacific

> could / should / would of instead of could / should / would have. Not sure that's actually an Americanism, but it drives me mad.
We have a guy in work who regularly writes it in EMails and for some reason that grates even more than when it's spoken.

> People who actually use acronyms / text abbreviations when they're speaking. We've had ASAP already in this thread (which is only mildly annoying) but I've known people say LOL or OMG in everyday speech <shakes head>


viv1969 said:
No worse than the Welsh pronouncing here as yer.
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FTR I do NOT do that :lol:
Nor do I say 'sospan' instead of 'saucepan' or 'tuth' instead of 'tooth' :p
 
The one that actually amuses me but I don't find annoying is the Northern expression "While"
ie Q what shift are you on today?
A 8 while 4
:D
 
SarahLee said:
> People who actually use acronyms / text abbreviations when they're speaking. We've had ASAP already in this thread (which is only mildly annoying) but I've known people say LOL or OMG in everyday speech <shakes head>
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OMG thats like so annoying, litteraly ....

the other thing i really dislike is people (generally white middle class over 30s) trying to speak 'down wid da kidz' - we have one manager who likes to put words like "recognise" on the end of his statements

"we had a great visitor day today, income was substantially increased, recognise " - no....just ... just f*****g stop it
 
It's not just the words. Earlier, I ate a Reese's Nut Bar. It wasn't nutty enough, and not as satisfying as a Snickers..........I mean MARATHON!!!!
 
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