O/T:- Creeping Americanisation of British English usage.

[LaxtonLad]

Listening to my 12 year old, 50% of the words used in any sentence are ‘like’ and ‘literally.’
Literally!

I like to travel on buses to various places for my pastime of rambling. On the buses I cannot help but hear conversations and the talk between ****agers is sooo annoying, it's filled with "like" and "yeah, no".

I have to say though, the worst of the lot are Americans who like everyone to know where they are from. A few years ago I was in a bus queue in Chesterfield and we were joined by an English boy together with an American girl who was doing most of the talking, he in a normal tone of voice but she needed to let us all know where she came from. The bus turned up and it was as if by an unspoken agreement between we "reserved English" we politely allowed the young couple on first. Of course they went and sat at the back while the rest of us crowded up front away from the girl's awful yankee twang. I'm sure the lad understood what had just happened but she didn't and just rabbited on.

[Observerpie]

My bad. Your bad what? Luck, back, knee.....grasp of the English language?

This irritates me intensely along with people replying "I'm good" rather than "I'm well" when asked how they are.

[laddo]

How about the use of American sports terms as in a sweeper (as in football) being called a "quarterback" or an unusual opinion being "out of left field" or a pause in conversation being "time out"?

Strange innit, that we never hear cricketing terms used by American commentators? Can you hearing a batsman called a "batter" or a bowler called a "pitcher" on Radio 4?

Can't stand the needless overuse of "super" and a few others mentioned, but that's got to be the worse makes the person sound about 12. Like and literally in every other sentence is also annoying.

When quarterback is used in in football I believe they are referring to an anchor man not a sweeper.

However there are some great American phrases I like and use occasionally when appropriate. LLs "Out of left field" is one of them. "Not my first rodeo" is another beauty. One American sports phrase which applies on this message board and is very apt is "“Monday morning quarterback”.

Nowt wrong with those phrases

[Jeekay56]

Can you hearing a batsman called a "batter" or a bowler called a "pitcher" on Radio 4?

Ooh another missing word game.

The BBC website has referred to batsmen/batswomen as batters for quite some time.

[Magpies1959]

The continual use of the word 'batter' nowadays instead of batsman in cricket really winds me up, as it has obviously been brought in to annihilate and hint of ***ism in the game, but nobody has stopped anyone calling the female equivalent 'batswoman'. Batter to me is something that cod is dipped in.
What is completely strange to me is that I am totally chilled with the term 'bowler' lol, and not bowlsman, presumably.

[Elite_Pie]

The continual use of the word 'batter' nowadays instead of batsman in cricket really winds me up, as it has obviously been brought in to annihilate and hint of ***ism in the game, but nobody has stopped anyone calling the female equivalent 'batswoman'.

The term 'batswoman' is very rarely used these days. Both men and women are referred to as 'batters'.

[applepie2]

Saying ’worse’ when you mean ‘worst’. I don’t think that’s an Americanism though. It’s still just about the worse mangling of grammar I hear frequently.

[SwalePie]

Saying ’worse’ when you mean ‘worst’. I don’t think that’s an Americanism though. It’s still just about the worse mangling of grammar I hear frequently.

It sometimes could 'of' been. Another of those is 'seen as' being used in place of 'seeing as'.

[Magpies1959]

I am aware of that EP I am just saying that batters has been introduced soley to be more inclusive and not to offend the woke generation

[Elite_Pie]

I am aware of that EP I am just saying that batters has been introduced soley to be more inclusive and not to offend the woke generation

I know, and it annoys me too.

I suppose 'batter' it's better than 'batsperson'.