The misuse of English words by Americans

[Urban Sports]

There are a few I can think of but the most annoying IMO are:

Anyways and anyhows.

Where the hell did the s come from?

[mybrainhurts]

Gotten...

[mybrainhurts]

Burglarize...

[mybrainhurts]

At this moment in time = Now...

Why use one word when five will do...?

[TheEnd]

Got Milk?

[mybrainhurts]

Familiarisationated...

[Jack.]

Aluminum

[MaineRd]

Gaol, and sadly our media are becoming more americanised and using the text speak jail, which is not English , just something which Bill Gates has yet to understand.

[Geronimo]

Absolute loads of them say "I could care less" when they actually mean the exact opposite.

[Urban Sports]

mybrainhurts said:

Gotten...

Agree totally

Oh yes I remember todally

[Maxf]

"I could care less"

Doesn't make sense - that means you are capable of caring less, so care to an extent. "I couldn't care less" is what you mean my American friends.

[mybrainhurts]

If you will...really gets on my tits

[V8mate]

Listening to young people these days, I'm more concerned about English people misusing English!

[MaineRd]

Jack. said:

Aluminum

Sadly , in this case I have to side with our colonial cousins. Originally named in Britain, Aluminum was discarded in favour of the British Aluminium, as a result of a trade mark conflict, so for once , they are using the original English more than we are !!

[Trooper2]

Can't we just call it processed Bauxite and be freinds?


it's Aluminum you dorks!...

[eharding]

Languages constantly evolve - ask the French; they do seem rather peeved that despite conquering England as little as 1012 years ago, we insisted on mangling the perfection of the French language with a lot of Anglo-Saxon, and then exporting the whole lot across the Atlantic with a smattering of Nordics, Germanics, Africans, Chinese and...er..Welsh...and hey-presto, here we are with American English as the globally accepted lingua-franca (or is that a type of pasta?).

Give it 50 years, and we'll all be chatting in Chinese, and specialist manufacturers of bespoke 'L' keys for top-end keyboards will have long since gone to the wall.

[Melch]

"How are you spelling that?"

[mybrainhurts]

Melch said:

"How are you spelling that?"

T H A T

[mephistopheles]

MaineRd said:

Jack. said:

Aluminum

Sadly , in this case I have to side with our colonial cousins. Originally named in Britain, Aluminum was discarded in favour of the British Aluminium, as a result of a trade mark conflict, so for once , they are using the original English more than we are !!

Yep and there are many more we scream and shout about which actually originated from ye olde English. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English#Engl...

[mybrainhurts]

From the mouth of an American teacher...We are two nations, divided by a common language