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1. when America sneezes, we catch a cold!

2. Staycation

 

both can just fuck off

 

oh and "The Project" when used in football circles.....even more wank!

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I reckon more people over here pronounce it as it as "sc" rather than "sh" nowadays.

 

Doesn't make it right though.

 

I reckon you're right. Is it TV that's done this? I know there's worse things in life, but still

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I reckon you're right. Is it TV that's done this? I know there's worse things in life, but still

 

I reckon so.

 

Another one, not sure if it's an Americanism or not though, is "maintenance" being pronounced "mantAINance".

 

... but of course, those of us who see values in knowing how to read, write and speak properly are just being 'picky'.

 

Broken Britain.

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This isn't a 'saying' and is old ground on here - yet some people persist with...

 

'Loose' for lose, i.e. "We'll probably loose to Sunderland but I'm not bothered..."

 

To the culprits, read it back to yourselves for fucks sake. Did The Happy Mondays sing about wearing a 'Lose fit'? Are those harridan scoldwitches on the telly at dinnertimes the 'Lose Women'? Is a mentalist sometimes referred to as having 'a screw lose'?

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This isn't a 'saying' and is old ground on here - yet some people persist with...

 

'Loose' for lose, i.e. "We'll probably loose to Sunderland but I'm not bothered..."

 

To the culprits, read it back to yourselves for fucks sake. Did The Happy Mondays sing about wearing a 'Lose fit'? Are those harridan scoldwitches on the telly at dinnertimes the 'Lose Women'? Is a mentalist sometimes referred to as having 'a screw lose'?

 

I am staggered by the frequency I have come across this. I only started to notice this in the last 10 years or so. Its so wrong!

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ControVERSY - emphasising the second syllable of the word instead of the first. The word is CONtroversy - we are English not fucking frogs! Guaranteed to make me foam at the mouth and rip the head off every european I come across that one!

 

Also southerners who can't pronounce "R" s in words - "bought" instead of "brought" and this habit of pronouncing "schuge" for "huge". I could go on but need to lie down , wrap my head in a wet towel and chew a pillow.

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I think we need a new thread: Irritating "Americanisms" & American - English prounciation.

That'll get Didles posting again :D

 

 

 

I once had a colleague in the US ask me to stop spelling colour incorrectly. She was told to fuck off.

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I think we need a new thread: Irritating "Americanisms" & American - English prounciation.

That'll get Didles posting again :D

 

 

 

I once had a colleague in the US ask me to stop spelling colour incorrectly. She was told to fuck off.

 

Well done you. Hope you told her the language is English not Americanese.

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I think we need a new thread: Irritating "Americanisms" & American - English prounciation.

That'll get Didles posting again :D

 

 

 

I once had a colleague in the US ask me to stop spelling colour incorrectly. She was told to fuck off.

 

I still get it. Too many to think of. Because of my chosen profession, Aluminum is a prime example. Speilchucker keeps pulling me up for 'S's instead of 'Z's. Grrrrr

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I think we need a new thread: Irritating "Americanisms" & American - English prounciation.

That'll get Didles posting again :D

 

 

 

I once had a colleague in the US ask me to stop spelling colour incorrectly. She was told to fuck off.

 

Wondered where he had gone.

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More chav sayings the young uns keep saying

 

Totes

 

Amazeballs

 

Jell

 

Fam

 

Yolo

 

 

I know Jell & Amazeballs & presume Totes means totally, but the Fam & Yolo, I may need help.

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