Invites!!!!!

Maths is an abbreviation of mathematics, plural ending. It's more logical to call it maths than math.

I'm getting to very much dislike the use of 'pissed' to mean fed up. It may not be an elegant expression but it means 'drunk'. To be fed up you have to be 'pissed off'.

I just had a quick look at your profile page, Maranta. You are certainly very old!

Racism my eye...

Gotten is an old English word, one that has dropped out of use here. Math is used in the USA and I for one get fed up with all this American bashing. If it was any other country it would be described as racism.

Yorkshiregel, yes I cannot abide gotten! Or Math instead of maths or going forward! There are many many more that irritate me!

I detest 'that's sick' said when someone thinks something is very good.

Yuk, it makes me feel sick, can't imagine where such a horrid expression came from.

"I have never heard the phrase 'they've gotten to go' in my life. What does it mean?"

It means 'allowed' or 'permitted' or 'invited'

'Bob and Alice's niece wasn't sure whether to invite them to her wedding, but now they've gotten to go.'

I have never heard the phrase 'they've gotten to go' in my life. What does it mean?

That should have read "Digby" damn auto correct

Of course I have other things to worry about, currently many of them serious and of course there are other things that invade my nasal cavities than "invites"

If you can't take the op in the way it was intended, then I may as well stick my head in Rights water bowl and go blbbbbb.

Goodness me. What a good job there is nothing else to worry about.

Yorkshiregel I am in agreement with you! I also hate "dude" with a passion! Just writing it now is making my blood pressure rise! Also that advertisement on TV for vitamins - Well Baby and Well KID! Grrrrrrrrrrr

Yorkshiregel wrote 'Gotten'

I'm with you on most of this except I don't mind 'gotten'. In fact it's we in the UK who have dropped this form (except you'll hear Joe Grundy use it). Strangely we still use 'forgotten' as the past participle of 'forget', an also beget/begotten. In fact it is quite useful as the two forms 'got' and 'gotten' have evolved into slightly different meanings in the US.

'They've gotten to go' and 'They've got to go' mean two quite different things.

Hmm. Perhaps I'm not quite as pedantic as I thought. I loathe 'invite' as a noun, and 'medalling' also drove me mad.

But I am NOT a 'BRIT'.

However, I find 'guys' a useful unisex term.

Though 'kiddies' is a word I don't like, I have known it all my long life.

I have been relieved and surprised that while reporting and commenting on the current Jungle demolition in Calais our housing some young people from there has been reported as relating to 'children' in everything I have heard and read. What a relief! Even cabinet ministers dealing with young people's affairs refer to 'kids' usually.

Oh help "medalling" made me want to scream & "you guys" Estate Agents used that to myself & DH when we sold our house!!! Grrrrrr

There are things that bother me more .

Wa Evah! :-)

'Common'? Oh dear! Another reason for never using it!

Sorry folks this isn't an Americanism. It is used as early as 17 century grammarist.com/usage/invite/
Just more common now.

Hi Yorkshiregel, I'm with you all the way. Have family who emigrated to the States years ago but who keep in close touch and now all the younger generation still in the UK say' you guys' 'good to go' ' I'm good' etc.

But I am equally annoyed with my daughter's use of language. She is still in England, and has, for some unknown reason, only now (after many years of marriage, and living near MIL and FIL) started to copy some of MIL's words and phrases.

These, like John Betjeman, ( see his 'pass me the fish knives, Norman' poem!)I was myself brought up to reject in favour of more traditionally British words commonly associated with Received Pronunciation! It grates that my own GC is learning to say 'kiddies' and 'lounge' (also, I think, American imports)instead of 'children' and 'living' or 'sitting'room' - as well as the word'invite' instead of 'invitation'....aargh!!

Language is not only a communication tool.Your choice of words also defines to some extent who you think you are - and will certainly influence what people think of you! As we all know, from having on occasion to be forced to listen to people who cannot speak without using the 'f' word in every sentence....

Wake up and taste the coffee
We are playing with the grownups
Take a hike
Singing from the same hymn sheet
Get a life
Suck it up
Punching beyond our weight

I feel as thought I am living in America sometimes. We know what they mean, but why not speak English?

Don’t get me started!

Off of
24/7
Touch base
Gotten
I’m good
My bad
Nail the jelly to the wall
Grown up speaking
Blue sky speaking etc etc
Do the Math
You guys (both sexes)
Ironical
Going forward
Heads up
Listen up
Good to go
Have a nice day

Not quite the same thing, but i hate waiters who take my order and then say 'no problem' or 'no worries', thereby making me feel I AM a problem!

I completely agree. I usually respond to the 'invite' by thanking the sender for their kind INVITATION.

Verbs as nouns! Arggghhh! What about the 'medalling' that all the athletes were doing in the Olympics? It set my teeth on edge.

The use of 'impact' as a verb? As in so and so s impacted by whatever... Grrr..