Don`t get me started, or should I say "don`t even go there" :rolleyes:

Aye, the Americans and the Australians have much to answer for.

But we don't do ourselves any favours.
Watch the Halifax advert where TopCat goes to ask for a loan for a new house, and the stupid Halifax girl says, "Do probleb".

Could they NOT have found someone without adenoids or a frikkin cold to do her part???????

LOL :lol1:

Or 'the progeny' :D Cracked me up when the offspring of some friends organised a 'do' for their parents wedding anniversary and referred to themselves with the aforementioned term :luxhello:

I have become everything I once loathed, language wise, lol.

So many S's replaced with Z's
So much 'o' instead of 'ou' in words (labor, etc.)
"Process" said the other way
"Apartment", not "flat"
"can I get" instead of "please may I have"
"my bad" instead of "my fault"
biiiiiig reduction in the amount I say the word c$nt (that;s not such a bad thing, I suppose)
"vacation" not "holiday"
"lb's" not "stone or kg"
Driving "stick" or "standard" not "manual"
"gas" instead of "petrol"
saying "right?" all the time, in response to someone requesting validation of something conversationally
e.g. Them "I can't believe gas prices have gone up to $2.50 per gallon! It's insane, isn;t it?"
Me: "Right? It's soooo expensive, now" :lol1:

However, I refuse to say "pant's" instead of trousers and there is no way I will ever say "aluminum"

A scoobynet favourite: HEADERS!

We call it a manifold :razz:

Oh yeah and no one here knows what the heck you are talking about if you say 1500hrs or fifteen hundred hours. They are all "why are you speaking in military time?" - it's just the 24hr clock!!

Most kids can't tell the time by an analogue watch

Well done there :thumb:

I've found that in fact a lot of kids here just don't give a crap what the time is, whether or not they can tell the time!

I had people coming in for interviews who I'd call when they were 15 mins late and they would say "oh, yeah, I forgot. Uh, yeah, like, something came up. We can do it some other time" - my response "yeah, uh, like, no we are rejecting you" lol

That drives me up the wall.

Same as discs calling them rotors, front wings, fenders, rear spoiler, wing, calling a bonnet a hood, Registration plate or Number plate is very commonly called license plate in UK. It does not exist :(

X is another

'Can sum1 xplane how I can fx my hed gasgit?

Used nucular instead of nuclear yet? IIRC Tony B Liar did when @rse licking Dubya...

"No" typed instead of "know"! :mad:

Not really any excuse for text speak now. It was OK when texts first appeared, but with smart phones and predictive text, WHY????????

The English language has been constantly evolving over the centuries.


I suspect that Shakespeare would have found Dickens use of words and phrases annoying too.


Anyway I found an olde English word that sums up a certain SN grump perfectly... Rawgabbit :)

yes indeed , no what yer mean !

Oh, god. I forgot that one!! Another I will never use!

I mean, I just can't even....:lol1: