Bad American words

wolfgang59

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06 Feb 10

wolfgang59

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06 Feb 10

No disrespect to our American cousins - and I love the language evolving - but I think this word is universally hated in UK.

BURGULARIZE

The word is BURGLE !!! 😠

Any others?

HandyAndy

Read a book!

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06 Feb 10

Originally posted by wolfgang59
No disrespect to our American cousins - and I love the language evolving - but I think this word is universally hated in UK.

BURGULARIZE

The word is BURGLE !!! 😠

Any others?

irregardless, methodology, finalize

wolfgang59

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06 Feb 10

Originally posted by HandyAndy
irregardless, methodology, finalize

irregardless is this a word !!! 😲

methodology seems OK to me ... what's the problem?

finalize ugly, ugly, ugly ....... we have the words FINISH or END

Mimor

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06 Feb 10

Originally posted by wolfgang59
No disrespect to our American cousins - and I love the language evolving - but I think this word is universally hated in UK.

BURGULARIZE

The word is BURGLE !!! 😠

Any others?

Orientate instead of orient. Administrate in place of administer.

(I say "burgle" 🙂 )

hopscotch

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06 Feb 10

color

valor

nucular

freedom fries

AThousandYoung

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06 Feb 10

"Guy" instead of "bloke"?

Badwater

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06 Feb 10

Originally posted by wolfgang59
No disrespect to our American cousins - and I love the language evolving - but I think this word is universally hated in UK.

BURGULARIZE

The word is BURGLE !!! 😠

Any others?

I think it's said that way here because burgle sounds like washing one's mouth out with a soapy rinse.

I don't like bathroom. Most bathrooms I see don't have the bath option and it makes no sense. Neither do I care for its sibling restroom. I don't want to rest in a restroom. There is no sofa, there is no bed, and if there was one there I'd not want to rest on it!!

Busygirl

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06 Feb 10

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
"Guy" instead of "bloke"?

That's actually an English thing. See here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes

Busygirl

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06 Feb 10

Originally posted by wolfgang59
No disrespect to our American cousins - and I love the language evolving - but I think this word is universally hated in UK.

BURGULARIZE

The word is BURGLE !!! 😠

Any others?

pacific

This is a horrific shortening of the pronunciation for the word "specific". Not refering to the ocean.😠😠😕😕

moveitgudt

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06 Feb 10

Originally posted by Busygirl
pacific

This is a horrific shortening of the pronunciation for the word "specific". Not refering to the ocean.😠😠😕😕

huh? lol

Suzianne

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06 Feb 10

Me and my wife watched that game on TV.

This drives me screaming insane whenever I hear it (or similar).

Tyrannosauruschex

Mr T

I pity the fool!

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06 Feb 10

Chips - that one always annoys me, because they are talking about Crisps! And, worse still, the thing they should be calling chips they call french fries.

biffo konker

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06 Feb 10

Americans have different ways of saying things.They say,´elevator´we say ´lift´... they say, ´President ´, we say, ´stupid psychopathic git ´.
Alexei Sayle.

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06 Feb 10

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06 Feb 10

Liberation seems to be a doozie.