Americanisms taking over

I hate it too, but the English language is real and organic and robust, we pick up and discard words all the time.

One phrase I wish we would adopt though, is often times. I hear Amercans use it a lot and it sounds so much better than very often!

Products will come and go- wait until the Chinese really take over lol!

"Oftentimes, first used in Middle English from 1150-1500, and first evidence is from before 1398 in the poems of John Gower."
So not an Americanism as I found when researching it from uncle Google. I find it interesting that our old language is still carried on across the pond. Much nicer than some that is used in the UK today.

Icing and biscuits aren't at all the same as frosting and cookies.
There's room for both.

I don't want to call my boot the trunk though!

Most "Americanism" are actually older English than the English we use now.
Thete was another thread about this recently.
I think it was in Pedants' Corner...

When I read Bill Bryson's "Made in America" a long while ago, it was interesting to know how many Americanisms are rooted in old English.

It’s gotten too much!

Many British people admire the Americans and want to be like them. The internet has a lot to do with it, though. American words and spellings are on search engines, so naturally they are creeping into our language.
We should be very careful though. Generally speaking, the Americans have lower standards than ours and we shouldn't copy everything they do.

Sago

It’s gotten too much!

I like to do crosswords online (yes I know) and often they appear as being from a British newspaper but when I come to do them they are clearly aimed at Americans.

For instance a town I think of as being in an English county is in Omaha. Hockey is always played on ice with pucks. And that is before we get onto spellings.

The names of famous American sportsmen often crop up and for some reason Rita Hayworth, the IRS and the NRA.

I could go on but I won't. Has anybody else experienced this?

It’s So So annoying!

I know, I can think many things that are more annoying.

Many British people admire the Americans and want to be like them.

Is that really true? I've never heard or read it anywhere, curtaintwitcher

I like to do puzzles etc., online. Already do wordle and quordle - both American with American spellings. Tried sporcle a quizzing site, but again, American, with lots of questions on ex presidents, baseball etc.
Am hooked on Outspell, a form of scrabble but again American spellings.
Are there any good quizzing sites etc., online that are not American??

I don't like gifted either. But I've discovered I use it myself. No hope for me

I had a message from a friend today telling me he'd put new tires on his bike. I told him in no uncertain terms that Americans may well put tires on their bikes but we put tyres on ours!

And people that drives me nuts. People who! 'That' is for things. 'Who' is for people, please!

I had a real tussle with laundromat, in a book I had written. I had to be really ,really definite that there were no laundromats in 1950’s Wales.

Sago

It’s gotten too much!

I quite like gotten!

Rekarie

I don't like gifted either. But I've discovered I use it myself. No hope for me

It is interesting how some nouns are becoming verbs - I quite like gifted.

Freya5

"Oftentimes, first used in Middle English from 1150-1500, and first evidence is from before 1398 in the poems of John Gower."
So not an Americanism as I found when researching it from uncle Google. I find it interesting that our old language is still carried on across the pond. Much nicer than some that is used in the UK today.

It’s where their language came from in the first place, with the white settlers in when, the 1500’s? I quite like Americanisms tbh.😃

I know it’s an old thread ,but an interesting one anyway.