American English.

The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
Yep, I see far more to get annoyed about in the recent bastardisation / evolution of the language by Brits.

My current pet hate is the dropping of the "to" when talking about going somewhere. such as "I'm going Wetherspoons".

Makes my blood boil, especially when used in text as well as spoken.
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Sounds West Yorkshire
 
Couldn't care less about language differences, and as far as "makes my blood boil" I think people need to calm the **** down.

But don't get me started on the moronic way they write dates. Makes zero sense and represents a shed load of extra work for people working in computerised data. Now that makes me stabby.
 
SmallTown said:
Pedants point: These are American idioms, not American English.

American english is calling a pavement a sidewalk or the boot of your car a trunk. Or the inablity to spell metre or aluminium.
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I said to an American the other day shouldn’t you call the middle bit between the so-called sidewalk the middle walk as that’s where most of you lot walk these days. Lol 😆
 
Chutney said:
Couldn't care less about language differences, and as far as "makes my blood boil" I think people need to calm the **** down.

But don't get me started on the moronic way they write dates. Makes zero sense and represents a shed load of extra work for people working in computerised data. Now that makes me stabby.
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Uh, feathers ruffled!!! I hate that stupid date format in IT stuff. There was a reason I changed everything to UTC on our server estate. And also because it ***ed off the yanks complaining there was no 30th month of the year.

And people say its a Reddit thing, but seeing Yanks write 'how the turn tables' just gets me incensed.
 
BaronSmoggie said:
Uh, feathers ruffled!!! I hate that stupid date format in IT stuff. There was a reason I changed everything to UTC on our server estate. And also because it ***ed off the yanks complaining there was no 30th month of the year.

And people say its a Reddit thing, but seeing Yanks write 'how the turn tables' just gets me incensed.
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The MM/DD/YY date format is the original British format. It was always written that way until the 1940s. Since WWII the format has largely changed in Britain to DD/MM/YY, unless you were educated by people who themselves were educated in the 1930s. My parents insisted I use MM/DD/YY.

Words like Aluminum were changed by the Brits, not Americans.

Autumn is another British invention. It was Fall until relatively recently, as used in the US.
 

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Soutra said:
The MM/DD/YY date format is the original British format. It was always written that way until the 1940s. Since WWII the format has largely changed in Britain to DD/MM/YY, unless you were educated by people who themselves were educated in the 1930s. My parents insisted I use MM/DD/YY.

Words like Aluminum were changed by the Brits, not Americans.

Autumn is another British invention. It was Fall until relatively recently, as used in the US.
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Interesting, but the date thing is still wrong. At least we figured it out and changed it :)
 
Just remembered the phrase I hate the most (heard the American summarizer use it in the Spurs - Arsenal commentary)

"Often times"

Urgh.
 
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