Rescuing British English

[Boru62]

" Freaking ass buddies " an unfortunate line up of words!

Only in America!

 

[preidy]

You guys are a hoot (and I'll sign the petition too).

'Smashing' being replaced by 'awsome'. WTF! Please, somebody ban the word 'awsome' from this forum!

I second that motion.

 

[Boru62]

You guys are a hoot (and I'll sign the petition too).


I second that motion.

Nice one.
But I must warn you, you chaps have to pay for the wall around our language.

 

[Olie29]

You guys are a hoot (and I'll sign the petition too).


I second that motion.

I'm guilty of using the word awesome too but after all it was one of our words originally that was stolen by the Americans

 

[William Dobson]

It's chips, not fries. I'm not having my fried eggs on a bed of fries...

Yous guys don't know your arse from a hole in the ground. We'd have hash-browns with our eggs, and on the side, not on a bed. Besides, chips come in bags, although I think I once saw someone in Manchester having his eggs on a bed of potato chip bags. Not really sure because everything was obscured by the mound of baked beans.

 

[Boru62]

Besides, chips come in bags

Correct, piping hot and covered in salt and vinegar

 

[William Dobson]

It's a lorry not a truck; it's a boot not a trunk; it's a bonnet not a hood...ad nauseam. Setting this aside, I do get a chuckle when English as spoken in England and the British Isles is referred to as British England. English developed in England, hence the language is known as English. English languages as spoken in other English speaking countries are derivatives of English, i.e. Canadian English, American English, Australian English, New Zealand English, South African English, etc. Other languages don't refer to the mother tongue in such a way: French as spoken in France is French, not French French; German as spoken in Germany is German, not German German; Spanish as spoken in Spain is Spanish, not Spanish Spanish, etc. It is a credit to the English language that it is so wide spread and is the lingua Franca of the world, but I do think that English as spoken in the British Isles should be referred to as just English. I think calling it "British English" is an Americanism of the worst form and should be banned. When I wrote my English (Language and Literature) O and A levels, the most heinous crime was to be caught using an Americanism.

What a minute. Didn't I read Donald already annexed Canada? Something to do with a dispute over beaver pelts and maple syrup. Only a matter of time before the courts make the Canadianism "eh" a heinous crime. There goes 50% of your vocabulary.

 

[William Dobson]

Correct, piping hot and covered in salt and vinegar

Now you really got something.

 

[riverrun]

What always gets me are Americans who think they speak 'English' and we speak 'British'.

 

[Eeyore68]

Sadly it is rather difficult to learn proper English here on the continent ... too many American influences (and even papers being returned for "spelling errors" when using British English!).

 

[pjgh]

While harassment is never right, it is doubly wrong to hu-rass.

 

[pjgh]

It's chips, not fries. I'm not having my fried eggs on a bed of fries...

We've had a further cultural erosion here as chips are often called "fat chips" nowadays, like skinny chips, fries, frites is somehow the standard.

Chips. Proper chips. Proper: "denoting something that is truly what it is said or regarded to be; genuine" ... standard.

 

[JohnnyO]

An ass is a cross between a donkey and a pony and it cannot reproduce...an arse is that thing we take a dump from lol

Or my last Sgt !

JohnnyO. o/

 

[Bob]

When waiting at a bar counter to be served I usually hear someone say to the barmaid or whatever "can I get....". I could explode, it should be "can I have......" (pint of bitter, bag of crisps etc...) Drives me mad.

 

[culcreuch]

Just as long as I can continue to call people 'FECKING EEJITS'

 

[Fergiebilly]