Americanisms
 

A somewhat ironic title I know.
No apologies to any Yanks whatsoever.

"Nipping in the butt"

No! Wrong! Totally wrong!

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Re: Americanisms
 

What about bushisms?

Pick whatever word you like, and stick "ification" at the end

Wonderfulification!

Matt

Re: Americanisms
 

We've both said 'ism'. We're as bad as them!

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Is that an Americanism? I thought it was just a universal semi-literateism? Like "changing tact". It's CHANGING TACK! TACK! TACT MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL IN THIS CONTEXT!

I suppose it's possible I get disproportionately worked up about that one though.

Re: Americanisms
 

Jism.

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Saying "can I get" instead of "can I have" really winds me up.

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Are you a sailor then?

I'll take a rain check on the others...*groan*...

Re: Americanisms
 

Saying "can I have", instead of "may I have" winds me up.
Anyway, when I order something I say "I'll have the..." I mean I'm ordering here, just do as you're told and we'll get through this.

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What about saying: "I could care less about that" when actually they mean "I COULD NOT care less about that!". ARGH!

On some crappy show the other day I actually heard some fool using it in the past-tense. "I used to could care less about global warming, but now I see it's important". As if could-care-less is a word in itself :)

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People putting 'like' in every sentence:smt076 It's, like, sooo annoying :smt076

:p