Most annoying Americanism

[Deleted member 1147]

I could cope with ''Does anyone know t'weather''

A bit like the yoga instructor who moved to Lancashire, saying “Hands on thighs ladies”
Turning around she saw all the class with hands covering their faces 🤦‍♀️👀

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Surely the worst is them taking established sports - calling it something different and then declaring the competition “World” something

Rounders - baseball - World Series as an example

 

[ManinBlack]

Military term "delivering ordinance" = bombing.

 

[Foxholer]

I like how we pick out regional accents for criticism in an enormous country / population, but ignore our own regional variations.

Why aye mun!

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Why aye mun!

Fit like?

 

[MadAdey]

I think a lot of what people talk about comes from regional dialect. Having been here 5 years the way the different states pronounce things is annoying. I work with people from all over the country. West Virginians pronounce Vehicle like they are saying Veeheeckle.

The one that boils my P*** is the way they call all golf courses "the links". I get into work on Monday and they will ask how was the Links at the weekend? You go on websites for golf clubs and they will refer to the course as a true Links challenge. Then go and show a picture of a beautiful manicured hole surrounded by pine trees with an island green...... not like the links courses I know from back home.

I could go on all night about the Americanizms that annoy me, but the list is endless. (like the way I dropped in a Zee instead of and s)? That's another one BTW it's a Zed, not a Zee......lol

 

[BubbaP]

I like how we pick out regional accents for criticism in an enormous country / population, but ignore our own regional variations.

Happy to be educated, is there a region in the USA where pronouncing the t in water is commonplace?

 

[Orikoru]

A lot of what you guys are saying are not Americanisms, they're more just things that Americans do or say. I think the term Americanism refers to something that (mainly) British people have inadvertently adopted from Americans.

This for example:

Any of Rick Beem's commentary from Sky Golf.

This is not an Americanism, it's an American.

 

[bobmac]

A lot of what you guys are saying are not Americanisms, they're more just things that Americans do or say. I think the term Americanism refers to something that (mainly) British people have inadvertently adopted from Americans.

This for example:This is not an Americanism, it's an American.

That's what I meant in the Op, I obviously didn't make it clear enough

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Kellyanne Conway - though not sure if she is real - and her Alternative Facts and Fake News. Haven't heard the former yet - but heard the latter used quite regularly.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Stupidly and overly bunkered holes with, bunkers silly sizes and shapes - especially the silly shapes. IMO - bunkers should look natural in shape and that they belong in the landscape.

Garishly loud golfing tops and trousers.

 

[Foxholer]

Happy to be educated, is there a region in the USA where pronouncing the t in water is commonplace?

No! It's usually pronounced 'warder'!

 

[DeanoMK]

The 'Like' epidemic.

I listened to No Laying Up's podcast episode with Zac Blair and every other word was 'like' and us Brits are very heavily adopting it - I know I'm guilty of it myself at times, but I am conscientiously working on eradicating it.

That right now, is my biggest pet hate in the world.

 

[Foxholer]

The 'Like' epidemic.

I listened to No Laying Up's podcast episode with Zac Blair and every other word was 'like' and us Brits are very heavily adopting it - I know I'm guilty of it myself at times, but I am conscientiously working on eradicating it.

That right now, is my biggest pet hate in the world.

Another that's endemic in many UK regional speech - and has been for years, so not specifically an Americanism.

 

[SocketRocket]

Another that's endemic in many UK regional speech - and has been for years, so not specifically an Americanism.

'Like' is Obviously like literally annoying obviously.

 

[BubbaP]

No! It's usually pronounced 'warder'!

See post #80

 

[Kellfire]

I think a lot of what people talk about comes from regional dialect. Having been here 5 years the way the different states pronounce things is annoying. I work with people from all over the country. West Virginians pronounce Vehicle like they are saying Veeheeckle.

The one that boils my P*** is the way they call all golf courses "the links". I get into work on Monday and they will ask how was the Links at the weekend? You go on websites for golf clubs and they will refer to the course as a true Links challenge. Then go and show a picture of a beautiful manicured hole surrounded by pine trees with an island green...... not like the links courses I know from back home.

I could go on all night about the Americanizms that annoy me, but the list is endless. (like the way I dropped in a Zee instead of and s)? That's another one BTW it's a Zed, not a Zee......lol

Americanizm isn’t an Americanism, it’s just wrong.

 

[Dando]

The “trend” of wearing over sized jeans halfway down your legs

 

[rulefan]

Originization

American spelling avoids -ise endings in words like organize, realize and recognize. British spelling mostly uses -ise, while -ize is sometimes used (organise/organize, realise/realize, recognise/recognize): the ratio between -ise and -ize stood at 3:2 in the British National Corpus up to 2002.

 

[KenL]

I used to fly on United Airlines a lot and the always told passengers "we will be de-planing momentarily" when we were about to get off the aircraft.