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

[ncfcog]

Does this annoy anyone else or am I the only dinosaur on here?

My latest pet peeve is the use of 'likely' as an adverb, even on the BBC. For example, the American-style 'Chesterfield will likely cheat at some point' rather than the English 'Chesterfield will probably cheat at some point'. (They could, of course, say 'Chesterfield are likely to cheat at some point' and that would be fine, but they don't.)

Of course there are dozens of other creeping Americanisations in this era of globalised entertainment and media but this one is all over the place at the moment. It grates every time I hear or read it. Does anyone else find it annoying?

Won't take it personally Swale! I know I often write like this and it's because it fits in with the narrative, sorry.

[SwalePie]

Another one for me, not necessarily an Americanisation, is when people say, so and so, off of the tele or so and so off of the radio. It is surely just 'off the tele/television/radio' or 'from the tele/television/radio'. I first heard Scott Mills off of Radio1 first say this, lol.
'Gotten'....grrrrrrr

Yes, that superfluous 'of' really grates!

[SwalePie]

Won't take it personally Swale! I know I often write like this and it's because it fits in with the narrative, sorry.

Haha nothing to do with your writing I assure you, it really annoyed me on BBC News this morning

[queenslandpie]

Easily solved by them saying 'Chesterfield will definitely cheat at some point'.

Ha Ha Ha

[ncfcog]

Haha nothing to do with your writing I assure you, it really annoyed me on BBC News this morning

I know mate, but i know I do tend to slip the odd Americanism in now and then.

[SwalePie]

Another one is the use of 'different than' instead of 'different from'. Grrr.

[Jeekay56]

That made me chuckle

Not the same but I absolutely hate people starting a sentence with "Yeah, No" That really grinds my gears!!!

Kyle Wootton in practically every interview.

[Glad2BeAPie]

Does anyone say Dinner and not Lunch, that peeves me and won't say it, growing up we had breakfast, dinner, tea, supper. Where did Lunch come from

[upthemaggies]

Nothing can ever be as annoying as the "High rising terminal" (statements inflected to sound like a question). Fine if it's those from down under or Northern Ireland, that's their accent, but Americans and English people using it sound like total divs.

[SwalePie]

Does anyone say Dinner and not Lunch, that peeves me and won't say it, growing up we had breakfast, dinner, tea, supper. Where did Lunch come from

Personally I have dinner at dinner time (in the evening) and lunch at lunchtime.