Stupid little things that bug you

[Citizen of Legoland]

I’m not sure if it’s a little thing, but the creeping Americanisation of British English.

A few weeks ago, a contestant on a game show gave an answer to a question about Vincent van Gogh as "van gow".

Other examples:

outside of
Off of
Putting month before day on dates, I.e. July 12th, instead of 12th July.
And many more.

I fucking hate it!

I just wanted to get that off my chest.

It all went to hell when people stopped writing “Upon thif twelfth day in the month of Jullaie in the year of our Lorde, two thoufand and twentie four”.

It really did.

 

[Vienna_70]

To be fair the yanks copied that from Britain, originally it was month, date, year in Britain until Britain changed it to the present way to fit in with the rest of the world a long time ago.

I never knew that.

 

[Bill Walker]

I never knew that.

The yanks got most of their shit from UK, measurements still in use today, refrigeration is still measures in tons, horse power, there's yards, inches, deg F, British Thermal units for heat, inches water gauge for resistance etc etc.

Britain has abandoned all these.

 

[East Level 2]

It all went to hell when people stopped writing “Upon thif twelfth day in the month of Jullaie in the year of our Lorde, two thoufand and twentie four”.

It really did.

There's a Lord Snooty tribute act who recently lost his parliamentary seat who probably still writes like that.

 

[SWPISHOME]

Parents at kids football games who go on like they are the coach on the sidelines.

Fucking cunts.

 

[East Level 2]

The yanks got most of their shit from UK, measurements still in use today, refrigeration is still measures in tons, horse power, there's yards, inches, deg F, British Thermal units for heat, inches water gauge for resistance etc etc.

Britain has abandoned all these.

Abandoning inches of water for resistance was probably a decent move, to be fair.

 

[Vienna_70]

The yanks got most of their shit from UK, measurements still in use today, refrigeration is still measures in tons, horse power, there's yards, inches, deg F, British Thermal units for heat, inches water gauge for resistance etc etc.

Britain has abandoned all these.

Yeah, we’re frequent visitors to the US, and it takes a bit of getting used to all the imperial measurements each time we go over there.

 

[Vienna_70]

There's a Lord Snooty tribute act who recently lost his parliamentary seat who probably still writes like that.

If you’re referring to whom I think you are, he was this election's Portillo; the one I was most delighted to see the back of.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

That one **** who inevitably gets out of his seat and opens the overhead luggage compartment the second the plane exits the runway.

 

[Cellarite]

Parents at kids football games who go on like they are the coach on the sidelines.

Fucking cunts.

Let the coaches coach.