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Irritating American names for things

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    #122
    vafankillar
    Registered Users Posts: 530 ✭✭✭vafankillar


    roommate instead of house mate.


    so you can't actually tell if the person shares and actual room or not with them specifying


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    #123
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Pissed.
    Vacation.
    RV.
    Happy Holidays.
    Fraternities and sororities, wanky US college things.


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    #124
    vafankillar
    Registered Users Posts: 530 ✭✭✭vafankillar


    Deleted User wrote: »
    ". And those who use the term "soccer" to describe a football game should be forced to operate a hotdog stand in an abandoned carpark.

    soccer was a british term that was probably used here as well before it was ever used in america and elsewhere. it makes no sense to think it's american really considering it's a shortening of asSOCiation football ( soft to hard C like in clubs & socs), the yanks wouldn't know that. it followed some english slang of the day, in line with calling rugby 'rugger'.

    the brits stopped using the word and then all forgot they actually coined it lol


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    #125
    Curlysue76
    Registered Users Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭Curlysue76


    breezy1985 wrote: »
    Its not as bad as using sweets for desert

    Or dessert even


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    #126
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,733 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    ~Rebel~ wrote: »
    (it’s short for gasoline)

    No kidding. Great when you have an emergency and someone's screaming about a gas leak.


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    #127
    cj maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,396 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Also the way they say Tuesday. The probably right saying Toos/day as opposed to how we say Chews/day but it’s annoying


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    #128
    OscarMIlde
    Registered Users Posts: 734 ✭✭✭OscarMIlde


    vafankillar wrote: »
    roommate instead of house mate.


    so you can't actually tell if the person shares and actual room or not with them specifying

    I've also noticed women calling friends that are girls girlfriends, it's hard to know whether they are a gay couple or just friends.


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    #129
    scotchy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,182 ✭✭✭scotchy


    Ive had to explain "runners".

    In the US its sneakers.

    And in Britain its either trainers, or plimsoles.



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    #130
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,548 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Plimsole does read like it should be correct. But it is plimsoll.


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    #131
    scotchy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,182 ✭✭✭scotchy


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Plimsole does read like it should be correct. But it is plimsoll.

    Would you believe I googled that before posting and your right, it just didn't look right to me:o

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    #132
    Fritzbox
    Registered Users Posts: 488 ✭✭Fritzbox


    Brussels Sprout wrote: »
    What are the perfectly good names of things that the Americans have, for some reason, decided to call completely different things that annoy you.

    Why pick on Americans?

    Have you ever heard the way French, German or Russian people pronounce things the way you don't?

    I'm pretty sure it'll do you're head in...


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    #133
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,481 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    We rely so much on America.

    Our culture is basically American, our wealth is from American companies.

    American english is superior english anyway so i'm glad it's getting more common in Ireland :)


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    #134
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,733 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Wash your mouth out with soap, frog.


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    #135
    The Great Gatsby
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    Brussels Sprout wrote: »
    What are the perfectly good names of things that the Americans have, for some reason, decided to call completely different things that annoy you.

    I'll open the bidding with them calling Fruit & Vegetables Produce (and pronouncing it "pro-juice").



    Why would words used by Americans, living in America, presumably speaking to other Americans, annoy someone living in 3000 miles away in another country?


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    #136
    440Hertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 651 ✭✭✭440Hertz


    scotchy wrote: »
    Ive had to explain "runners".

    In the US its sneakers.

    And in Britain its either trainers, or plimsoles.


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    In Cork it’s “rubber dollies”


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    #137
    Fritzbox
    Registered Users Posts: 488 ✭✭Fritzbox


    The Great Gatsby wrote: »
    Why would words used by Americans, living in America, presumably speaking to other Americans, annoy someone living in 3000 miles away in another country. .

    French and Dutch people live only a few hundred miles away and they use completely different words entirely.

    Should we all get upset?


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    #138
    [Deleted User]
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    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

    American english is superior english anyway so i'm glad it's getting more common in Ireland :)

    Go on...


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    #139
    Character Building
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭Character Building


    The use of "ize" rather than "ise". Just annoys me to see organised written as organized


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    #140
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,548 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    The Americans are managing OK with what we sent over.



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    #141
    The Great Gatsby
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭The Great Gatsby


    vafankillar wrote: »
    soccer was a british term that was probably used here as well before it was ever used in america and elsewhere. it makes no sense to think it's american really considering it's a shortening of asSOCiation football ( soft to hard C like in clubs & socs), the yanks wouldn't know that. it followed some english slang of the day, in line with calling rugby 'rugger'.

    the brits stopped using the word and then all forgot they actually coined it lol

    I know plenty of Irish people, especially those living outside of Dublin, and also people of a GAA background, who always say "soccer" instead of "football" . . . as do plenty of Canadians, Australians, and New Zealanders (and of course Americans) . . . . no idea why people get bent out of shape because someone says "soccer" instead of "football" . . . some people just want to find something to gripe about, no matter how trivial it might be.


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    #142
    breezy1985
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    440Hertz wrote: »
    In Cork it’s “rubber dollies”


    Its tackies or nothin kid


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    #143
    con___manx1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,471 ✭✭✭con___manx1


    The way they say route annoys the **** out of me.


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    #144
    Sardonicat
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    breezy1985 wrote: »
    Its tackies or nothin kid

    I haven't heard that in a long, long time. Co. Limerick. Never heard it anywhere else.


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    #145
    breezy1985
    Registered Users Posts: 24,418 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    I haven't heard that in a long, long time. Co. Limerick. Never heard it anywhere else.


    Limerick and India are the only places youll hear that Obi Wan


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    #146
    440Hertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 651 ✭✭✭440Hertz


    Any country that has another game called football:

    Gaelic Football
    Aussi Rules Football
    American Football

    They all tend to use the term soccer.

    It’s mostly just the English who get extremely upset about anyone using the term for some weird reason.


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    #147
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    breezy1985 wrote: »
    Limerick and India are the only places youll hear that Obi Wan

    OK. Yoda.


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    #148
    CVB
    Registered Users Posts: 472 ✭✭CVB


    Americans saying Parm a Jzhon ..... meaning Parmesan cheese it’s Parm a SAN ! Not American Incorrect Parm a jzhohn !!!!!


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    #149
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,414 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Using pounds to say their weight. 200lb? Is that big?

    Using the school grade for the age of a child. How old is he? He's an 8th grader.

    I could care less.


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    #150
    con___manx1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,471 ✭✭✭con___manx1


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    We rely so much on America.

    Our culture is basically American, our wealth is from American companies.

    American english is superior english anyway so i'm glad it's getting more common in Ireland :)
    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 😁


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    #151
    The Great Gatsby
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    Fritzbox wrote: »
    French and Dutch people live only a few hundred miles away and they use completely different words entirely.

    Should we all get upset?

    Evidently some people do!! . . . they get really annoyed and upset because some American says "sidewalk" instead of "footpath" or writes "realize" instead of "realise" . . . and some of them are probably the same people who will binge watch American shows on Netflix during Covid lockdown part 2.


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