Irritating phrases, Americanisms and other mangling of English as she is spoken...

[Pontius Navigator]

Going forward has its origins in Churchill 'go forward together'.

I bet he never stepped back

[llondel]

I was on some training course many years ago and came out with "Logic is what I use when I run out of ideas". The course leader liked that, so I'm sure it must qualify for inclusion here.

[bob2s]

I think the manglers of English all believe that bulls--t baffles brains.

[Pontius Navigator]

Big River sells the repellent at only £6.89

You can also buy ***** pills though a gob stopper would work as well.

[Boac]

bob - remember - you can slide further on ***** than on gravel.

[Magnus]

Good morning Ladies and Gents. They are not addressing toilets.

Speaking to God on the big white telephone...

I have, in the past, been known to call for Huey on the selfsame device.

[Undried Plum]

Good morning Ladies and Gents. They are not addressing toilets.

Speaking to God on the big white telephone...

I have, in the past, been known to call for Huey on the selfsame device.

I'll bet that that they said something along the lines of: "Hi. I'm from the FAA and I'm here to help you", on a level sloped place which they would call a "ramp".

[Karearea]

"so stinkin' cute" - a very jarring expression.

"anyhoo", sometimes even spelt "anywho", for anyhow.

"quite the" for quite a

"prepping" for preparing

[Pontius Navigator]

There is insufficient inventory of this item.

As I only wanted one: We are out of stock?

[TheGreenGoblin]

I hate the word drizzle, said in the sense of a pretentious chef on popular TV shows, where some odious cook, with an inflated sense of regard for his/her value to humanity, says something like "drizzle the excrescence of onion and bat's piss onto the marinated lamb cutlets". Otherwise I dislike drizzle in the meteorological sense as well.

[Pontius Navigator]

TGG, but preferable to pizzle.

[Mrs Ex-Ascot]

Meal prepping is a term that makes me cringe. What's wrong with the old fashioned description of batch cooking and freezing portions for future use?

Even more irritating is young women who post photos of rows of tuppers with their prepped meals ready to go into the fridge and freezer. It's not as if it's a new concept, so why do they have to come across as so smug and clever?

[TheGreenGoblin]

TGG, but preferable to pizzle.

Yes, and particularly, not in place of one's lamb cutlets...

Good old fashioned English word mind you...

FALSTAFF

The Boar's-Head Tavern, Eastcheap - Henry IV


'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried
neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish! O
for breath to utter what is like thee! you
tailor's-yard, you sheath, you bowcase; you vile
standing-tuck,--

All very apt and relevant to the animal head culinary delights being discussed on the TRABB step here.

PRINCE HENRY
With three or four loggerheads amongst three or four
score hogsheads. I have sounded the very
base-string of humility. Sirrah, I am sworn brother
to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by
their christen names, as Tom, Dick, and Francis.
They take it already upon their salvation, that
though I be but the prince of Wales, yet I am king
of courtesy; and tell me flatly I am no proud Jack,
like Falstaff, but a Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a
good boy, by the Lord, so they call me, and when I
am king of England, I shall command all the good
lads in Eastcheap. They call drinking deep, dyeing
scarlet; and when you breathe in your watering, they
cry 'hem!' and bid you play it off. To conclude, I
am so good a proficient in one quarter of an hour,
that I can drink with any tinker in his own language
during my life.

I had forgotten what a good play this was, read as a set work on another continent all those years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar%27s_ ... _Eastcheap

[Karearea]

"I can't even."

"We lucked out." - I'm unsure whether this means we were unlucky, or we were lucky.

[PHXPhlyer]

"Got lucky"?

PP

[Pontius Navigator]

Or written.

We have found that American paperbacks have a different typeset and sometimes punctuation marks from UK English. And of course we haven't gotten used to it.

I have just finished the latest Jack Reacher novel which seems a perfect primer for American language. In this one it was the first time I have noticed an English usage creep in when Reacher went up to the first floor.

[EA01]

Just had an email from a recruitment company 'Reaching out' to me....

I replied that, no, she was not reaching out, but contacting me, and at 22:00 no less!!! "I will peruse you email, during Business hours tomorrow, thank you' .... :/

[Pinky the pilot]

Fliegs; I would have added that unless she was a member of the 60's group The Four Tops, she should not even think about using the term 'reach out!'

[EA01]

You're not wrong Pinky!!..but I don't want to be too rude just yet!

[tango15]

I have long held this dystopian vision that somewhere in the USA is an underground bunker, wherein there is a group of Harvard/Yale etc., alumni whose job it is to cock-up the English language with new phrases and adaptations of old ones, and release them onto a poorly-educated public. My view of this was reinforced, when having been sent to Little Rock by Raytheon for an induction course, we had to watch a 10-minute video on the origin and use of the word paradigm. This was almost 30 years ago and I have never found an occasion to use the word since.

Oh, and back onto the main theme: At this moment in time (usually used by flight attendants during descent). FFS! What's wrong with NOW!