Posted on 09/27/2012 5:23:43 AM PDT by the scotsman
'There is little that irks British defenders of the English language more than Americanisms, which they see creeping insidiously into newspaper columns and everyday conversation.
But bit by bit British English is invading America too.'
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Nope, it wasn’t sweating -— I’ve heard and used that one for years. However, I DID only hear the “suffering” thing just the once, but it was enough to stick in my mind.
Regards,
My favorite...I mean favoUrite Brittishism is “dodgy”, particularly when talking about a person. It expresses a vague, but strong feeling that something is not quite right about an individual better than any “American” word.
(but behave in here .. you're surrounded by armed bastards !)
“What the Bloody Hell?!” has become my recent favorite expletive. And I frequently tell our annoying dog to “bugger off!”
Not me! It has me ticked off!
Where did that come from? :]
I’ve been using “brilliant” so long, I don’t even consider the British influence any longer!
I hearing a lot more “Spot on!”lately. I think it is an Anglicism, with Americans in recent decades preferring “exactly right” or “dead on.” I have in the last few years heard a few (not many) Americans use “queue” instead of “wait in line.”
My husband’s mother was British, and he also spent part of his childhood in England. One word he says that drives me crazy is ‘drawings’, referring to his artwork, but he pronounces it: drawERings.
I like watching the English car fix-up show Wheeler Dealers. When there is a lot of work to be done, Edd says that he “best crack on.” But he probably won’t have to if the car “is in pretty good nick.”
Cheers!
Guinness
I know! Coupled with the fact most Americans currently are so clueless about the King's English (or just about any form of grammatically correct English, for that matter) it's like being able to cuss somebody out in a foreign language.
;-)
Funny thing about the British mind....
They think Monarchy is “Cute”...
and Democracy is sacrosanct..
The truth is Monarchy and Democracy are both MOB Rule by mobsters..
The British mind has not figured that out yet..
You know... HOW Monarchy and Democracy are sisters..
And since Democracy is the political disease that has socialism as a symptom they are Gobsmacked politically..
The British mind cannot understand the American Constitution..
They are quite dumb politically..
I love to watch the British shows on Netflix, Midsomer Murders, Foyle’s War, Inspector Lewis, etc.
They say had a row(rhymes with cow)for an argument, sod off, straight away, muck about???. It just doesn’t right when I say it!
That is so true about the British accent. I always tell women they would swoon over a guy who worked on a garbage scow just because he had a British accent.
The Southern accent bias is interesting because there are theories that it has it’s roots in the British dialect.
“Duck”, or “ducks” or “duckie”, is quite a distinctive regionalism in England. Your great-grandfather was very likely from Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, or somewhere nearby in the East Midlands. “Duck” is used as a greeting even between two unrelated men. Etymologically it is related to the word “duke” and has nothing to do with the bird.
Oh, darn! I forgot that one. And I've used it to tell an annoying liberal coworker to 'bugger off', too!
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