[onedoug]

Read Shakespeare.

It won´t be long before someone really starts messing with their language...and it won´t be Americans.

[Hawthorn]

I’ll never forget when the cute British girl in the apartment across the hall told me, “Just come over and knock me up whenever you’re ready to leave.”

[Red Badger]

What’s wrong with “bits”?

It takes “bits’’ to make “bytes”...................

[MamaTexan]

Americans are angry with us for polluting their language

Some Americans just look for a reason to be po'd.

Bloody wankers.

Maybe if they got snogged, their outlook would improve.

[Tupelo]

While we are losing our regional accents, we are not losing our national idioms, we are adding others.
The reason for both is mass instant worldwide communications.
At the current rate of change, a 100 years from now English will be the official language of the entire world. Just as it is now in aircraft communication and business.
By then American English with it's addition of words from every language on earth including American Indian Tribal dialects will be part of every language on earth.
So instead of complaining, I am just going to sit back and watch. or listen. As one who hated English and other languages in school, I now find it fascinating.

[jiggyboy]

I figure any American calling something “over the top” is getting a little too pretentious.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Wankers.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Over the last 10 years or so, I’ve noticed Americans using the British phrase “spot on” to mean “exactly right,” “accurate.”

I’ve also heard the word “bum” in place of “posterior” or “fanny.” (The other day at the doctor’s office, the assistant told me to move my bum down the chair.) Here it used to mean just a hobo.

[normy]

Americans who use Britishisms tend to want people to think they are sophisticated. Reporters,Actors,Liberals,Democrat politicians.

[MrB]

My favo[u]rite:

Room Service:
“Morny. Ruin sorbees”

Guest:
“Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service”

Room Service:
“Rye..Ruin sorbees..morny! Djewish to odor sunteen??”

Guest:
“Uh..yes..I’d like some bacon and eggs”

Room Service:
“Ow July den?”

Guest:
“What??”

Room Service:
“Ow July den?...pry,boy, pooch?”

Guest:
“Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled please.”

Room Service:
“Ow July dee bayhcem...crease?”

Guest:
“Crisp will be fine.”

Room Service:
“Hokay. An San toes?”

Guest:
“What???”

Room Service:
“San toes. July San toes?”

Guest:
“Uhh... I don’t think so”

Room Service:
“No? Judo one toes??”

Guest:
“I feel really bad about this, but I don’t know what ‘judo one toes’ means.”

Room Service:
“Toes! toes!...why djew Don Juan toes? Ow bow singlish mopping we bother?”

Guest:
“Oh, English muffin!! I’ve got it! You were saying ‘Toast.’ Fine.” Yes, an English muffin will be fine.”

Room Service:
“We bother?”

Guest:
“No. Just put the bother on the side.”

Room Service:
“Wad?”

Guest:
“I mean butter...just put it on the side.”

Room Service:
“Copy?”

Guest:
“Sorry???”

Room Service:
“Copy...tea...mill?”

Guest:
“Yes. Coffee please, and that’s all.”

Room Service:
“One Minnie. Ass ruin torino fee, strangle ache, crease baychem, tossy singlish mopping we bother honey sigh, and copy....rye??”

Guest:
“Whatever you say.”

Room Service:
“Tendjewberrymud.”

Guest:
“You’re welcome.”

[Tailback]

I think it’s cute when Brits try to speak American...

[righttackle44]

I seen the accident, is not Brit. The infusion of the misuse of verbs comes from Americans. And the worst part of it is, some Americans do not know what the verb fault is in the first sentence.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I personally don’t know any Americans who are angry about this.

[ZULU]

Only concerned with you people polluting our politics with your Islamophilia, Hoplophobia and general socialist one world globalism.

[hosepipe]

Limeys talk funny..

[kalee]

Oh bosh, I have used some of those Britishisms for years but then my parents lived in England for a number of years and I have an English auntie, my mother’s best friend who, came to visit, married my uncle and stayed.

[PghBaldy]

I vaguely remember native-born Americans talking about “going to university,” or something like that. It was odd. I had always thought Americans went to college...

[Responsibility2nd]

Rush Limbaugh and I will put this on our shedule to read later.

[CygnusTheSwan]

"Judas Priest! There's an accident on the roundabout again. Bloody 'ell! Now I'll be late getting to 'ospital."

Definitely not the bee's knees...

[Lazamataz]

I'm gobsmacked. GOBSMACKED!

Unununium.

Unununium.