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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.
Nice one.
But I must warn you, you chaps have to pay for the wall around our language.
I don't know you'd have to ask a Noo Yoiker from that particular boroughHow do you say "Taco" in Queens English?
As if I would intentionally do such a thing Iain.It's the misuse of plurals that get on my thrupenny bits the most - it's fora not forums - equally stadia not stadiums. Don't start me on split infinitives. Colour not color, honour not honor. Yours pedantically - I. Oh - @Boru62 - I think you have opened a can of worms here K?
It's the misuse of plurals that get on my thrupenny bits the most - it's fora not forums - equally stadia not stadiums. Don't start me on split infinitives. Colour not color, honour not honor. Yours pedantically - I. Oh - @Boru62 - I think you have opened a can of worms here K?
Whatever those are!but you have to admit we got ya on deep dish pizza, fried chicken, and grits.
This is a petition to enforce all speakers of British English to refrain from using Americanisms.
It is a cake of soap, not a puck and a pack(et) of blades not a tuck, cars have rear lights not tail lights etc.
Please sign the petition and if you like, list a word you feel is being replaced. Just like the red squirrels are being usurped by their American alternative.
Grits,..... sound's most apatizing or something you would go to the doctors with!OK I admit we've bastardized the English language, and back in the day you Brit's made a better Gillette ( I have 12) but you have to admit we got ya on deep dish pizza, fried chicken, and grits.
320 million speakers of American English vs 60 million speakers of British English.
You lose.
Speaking American English increases your risk of dying of gun related incidents by a factor of 50...320 million speakers of American English vs 60 million speakers of British English.
You lose.
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