Irritating American names for things

~Rebel~

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Actually the Spanish word. Don't know how they started using it.

Probably crept into common usage through the huge Spanish speaking population I'd say - on a day to day basis, the main place I tend to hear cilantro used is in relation to mexican food anyway.

440Hertz

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Actually the Spanish word. Don't know how they started using it.

Most of ours just come straight from french:

Courgette Vs Zucchini
Aubergine Vs eggplant

Etc

440Hertz

Creol1 wrote: »

Watching US politics they use the same terms but with somewhat different meanings, which is very confusing: they say "middle class" meaning "working class" and use "liberal" to mean "socialist" or "social democratic".

Working class is a very very British term. In general you won't find many Americans who would apply it to themselves. I think to be quite honest you wouldn't find many Irish people who self identify as working class either.

fatbhoy

fatbhoy wrote: »

Fanny

Word of warning!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7UHKfqXYTU

Jakey Rolling

con___manx1 wrote: »

Have you ever been to America? Trump is their president and they can't even spell colour. Our culture is nothing like theres. Irish are a much smarter people that's why all there companies are here 😁

There, their, they're - it must be frustrating when you're so much smarter than these foreign idiots with their b*stardised version of English. But, if you are writing to one of these companies to offer your services, you would do well to run your application thru a grammar checker

Hangdogroad

Bro is bad enough but dont get me started on Brah. Then theres African American slang origin that white middle class bellends on both sides of the Atlantic appropriate. Dolla, bae, pimpin and worst of all "woke".

Oops!

Stick shift.

SUV.

Sedan.

Oh my gowwwd... Like serously?.......

Young girls and teens speaking and ending almost every sentence in a high pitched tone.

Nodster

C'mon man we've been on this since page 4 - 6......"do the math"

Kaybaykwah

Inglitch is nice languish.

speckle

I would love to be a fly on the wall of the American equivalent of boards and hear what they are saying about us.

Kaybaykwah

speckle wrote: »

I would love to be a fly on the wall of the American equivalent of boards and hear what they are saying about us.

Well, I was in Ireland last year and my two sons thought that "tires" spel[t](led) with a y was a bit over the top, tbf.

Hamsterchops

Deeepo instead of depot (deh.pow)
Zee instead of zed.

M.T. Cranium

speckle wrote: »

I would love to be a fly on the wall of the American equivalent of boards and hear what they are saying about us.

Trust me on this, you are better off not knowing. :cool:

Actually it's not that bad, and in fact there is no large American forum like boards, the forums designed for discussion of current events tend to segregate into political affiliations and only a very brave soul ventures off their reservation into the other half's domain.

If you do want to see what gets discussed in a forum similar to AH (but with mostly conservative only participants) try Free Republic. I think there's a leftist equivalent called DU, have never bothered to go in there (boards more than satisfies my need for left-right intellectual exchange).

Squeeonline

TheValeyard wrote: »

Vitamins


It's VIT-a-min

It's not VITE-a-min.


Useless sack of fcuking Yankee doodle dandy sh1te.

While I agree on the pronunciation, the word comes from "Vital amines" which could be shortened to VITE-amin quite fairly. It's one of their less egregious words IMO.

The younger crowd in work have been saying realtor for estate agent.
Cringe

Rodney Bathgate

Cringe

Quantum Erasure

Fanny

Rodney Bathgate

Fanny pack

Be right back

Q-tips for cotton buds. An American asked me once for them, took a while to get what she meant.

Rodney Bathgate

Cab (taxi)

Quantum Erasure

Inflammable means flammable?! What a country!

GrumpyMe

sodder for solder

Rodney Bathgate

Patty as in beef patty.

whisky_galore

speckle wrote: »

I would love to be a fly on the wall of the American equivalent of boards and hear what they are saying about us.

All thatched cottages, crocks of gold and The Quiet Man. Perhaps an appearance by those merrymaking rogues, the Provisional IRA.

looksee

Using visit to mean a chat without the implication of going anywhere. As in a reference to someone talking with the person next to them on a plane 'we had a nice visit'.

Recipes that use almost entirely brand names for ingredients - and no, a packet of cake mix is not an ingredient.

Craft videos are as bad...Use your (brand name) to draw your design then wash with (brand name + obscure colour names) and highlight with (brand name), You can add (brand names) if you wish, then use your (brand name) and your (brand name) to trim to size and use (brand name) to attach it to a (brand name). These are not just for promotional purposes. I know we have hoovers and biros, but really!

is_that_so

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

Patty as in beef patty.

That one is not their fault, it come from French paté! It's been around since the 17th century, but we'd know it as a pasty.

Montage of Feck

Using the word gravy for sauce.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

440Hertz

Montage of Feck wrote: »

Using the word gravy for sauce.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

Which is correct in certain culinary contexts.

440Hertz

is_that_so wrote: »

That one is not their fault, it come from French paté! It's been around since the 17th century, but we'd know it as a pasty.

A "burger" refers to a hamburger, which is the entire assembled thing with the bread buns and everything else.

A patty is the correct term (including here) for the circular meat bit. Irish and British people tend to call that a burger which is a bit like calling a sausage a hot dog or rashers a fry up.

There's nothing particularly American about the term patty, they're just being more specific.

We may be getting the term "burger" from the original German hamburger steak, which involves no buns, but it seems a bit more likely we just started calling beef patties burgers, as I don't think hamburger steaks were ever too common in these islands until the concept came in from the US.

Seamai

CVB wrote: »

Pawsta for PASTA !!!

The letter A being pronounced like an aw or o really grates on me, Vietnom, Bawli.....

Also herb being pronounced with a silent h.