Really?

[IR35FanClub]

As an aside, some 'Americanisms' turn out to be archaic English usage that died out in the UK but not over there. They are actually more traditionally English than modern English English.

Like 'erbs?

 

[doodab]

Do you know any particular ones?

Daiper, candy and fall (as in autumn), according to a random bbc article from a while back

 

[suityou01]

Daiper, candy and fall (as in autumn), according to a random bbc article from a while back

apparently we used to speak like them. A "rhotic" accent. It wasn't until the 1800s when one spoke with a plum in the mouth, and thence our languages diverged.

 

[DAG]

Yes, really.

I have a collins dictionary printed in 1990 that lists it as, among other things, an injerjection expressing surprise or doubt. So it's been around longer than you think.

Ok, I'll bite ...... injerjection????

 

[ZARDOZ]

apparently we used to speak like them. A "rhotic" accent. It wasn't until the 1800s when one spoke with a plum in the mouth, and thence our languages diverged.

We used to speak in regional dialects until invention of the "Queens English" when courtiers were forced to change their speak for the Queen ERI, Except for Walter Raleigh that is who was allowed to speak in his native West country accent. In the late 1700s came the London centric fashion for adding redundant 'Rs' to words. Both of these fashions have somehow become amalgamated and are now by many seen as the correct way to speak, when they are just modern bastardisation of the spoken English language. The Americanisms you loathe are the latest fashion and no less culturally valid than QE and fake rs.

 

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whaaaaat ??

Realllly??

like why would you even post that

 

[suityou01]

whaaaaat ??

Realllly??

like why would you even post that

Please put down your gutter parlance, you have 30 seconds to comply.

 

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OMG ed209

 

[suityou01]

OMG ed209

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Thank you for your cooperation.

 

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