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Irritating American names for things

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  • #102
    OscarMIlde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭OscarMIlde


    The way American TV cooks say 'Parmejan' instead of parmesan. It is so irritating and pretentious.

    Also their love of honorific titles. Every TV cook is referred to as chef constantly, regardless of whether they really are one or not. Yes Chef this, no Chef that. You never see that snivelling kow-towing on UK cookery shows. It's part of the weird authoritarian streak running through their country.


  • #103
    OscarMIlde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭OscarMIlde


    spurious wrote: »
    'Flavo(u)rful' is very annoying and I hear it creeping into British shows too. Flavoursome is a much better word and does not sound made-up.

    They also use healthful which just sounds ridiculous. What's wrong with good old healthy?


  • #104
    mvl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭mvl


    Downtown


  • #105
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,027 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    mvl wrote: »
    Downtown


    And then referring to areas like South Downtown as SoDo


  • #106
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    OscarMIlde wrote: »
    That weird vocal fry thing that every woman (and now increasingly every man) under 40 does.

    Oh God, I hate that. They sound chronically constipated.

    Pantyhose for tights. Panties for knickers.


  • #107
    440Hertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 651 ✭✭✭440Hertz


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Pants, ( it's an Irish thing as well unfortunately) - they are trousers. Pants are knickers.

    Pants in England seems to have come from a shortened form of underpants and forgetting that pants was used as a term for trousers.

    Seems in that case the English finding the term pants funny is just their take on it.


  • #108
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    OscarMIlde wrote: »
    They also use healthful which just sounds ridiculous. What's wrong with good old healthy?

    Normalcy instead of normality. Using alternate instead of alternative. Those words do not even mean the same thing!


  • #109
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,027 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Oh God, I hate that. They sound chronically constipated.

    Pantyhose for tights. Panties for knickers.


    Took me a while to get used to and for a bit there I thought it was mad how many American men I bumped into were gay till I realised that accent was just a thing now in the US


  • #110
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    "urbs" HERBS :mad:

    Soccer is annoying to me but I understand it's origins and why those with funny football codes use it - Association football got shortened/bastardised.


  • #111
    440Hertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 651 ✭✭✭440Hertz


    On the bathroom thing, same Americans: visiting my grandmother who had one of those houses that had the bathroom & toilet in separate rooms.

    “Can I please use your bathroom?”
    “OK - it’s up the stairs, turn left and second door on the right!” “Do you need a towel, love? There’s plenty of hot water!”

    (Look of total confusion and off she goes)

    “Oh Jesus! She means she wants to go to the TOILET!! I just thought she was one of those ones who keeps needing showers: you know what those Americans are like. Always in the feckin shower!
    Christ, I better shout up to her before she pi**es in the bath!”


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  • #112
    Day Lewin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,688 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    Fewtle for Futile. A-DULT for adult. And LAB-rat-ory for lab rats - I mean, labORatory


  • #113
    Nodster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 953 ✭✭✭Nodster


    After over 20 years happily married to a fine lass from northern California, I've heard them all. With the local fire station a stones throw from the backdoor she still informs me "The fire department just left on a call"


  • #114
    Asdfgh2020
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,582 ✭✭✭Asdfgh2020


    LJ3103 wrote: »
    Erbs for Herbs

    Our Brit friends/fiends use that word also


  • #115
    Porklife
    Registered Users Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Porklife


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    "erbs" HERBS :mad:

    Soccer is annoying to me but I understand it's origins and why those with funny football codes use it - Association football got shortened/bastardised.

    This wrecks my head to a ridiculous eye twitching level of rage 🀬
    I hate the word butt too..ooh cute butt 🀬


  • #116
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,386 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Asdfgh2020 wrote: »
    Our Brit friends/fiends use that word also

    And they are guilty with Hour, Honest and some more. Herb is a French word so originally went to America with a silent H.


  • #117
    440Hertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 651 ✭✭✭440Hertz


    Asdfgh2020 wrote: »
    Our Brit friends/fiends use that word also

    Yeah, but they insist on dropping all H’s as in “I live in an ‘ouse”.

    The Americans pronounce all the H’s then seem to think herb is in French and drop the H while pronouncing it nothing like French.


  • #118
    Arthur Helpless Dart
    Posts: 13,688 ✭✭✭✭ Arthur Helpless Dart


    Watching Hell's Kitchen is always a dose, having to listen to them mangling the pronunciation of risotto.


  • #119
    Zeek12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,461 ✭✭✭✭Zeek12


    Sadly a lot of these have become commonplace in our workplaces:

    Reach out
    Touch base
    Leverage
    Uptick

    Then there’s the annoying everyday ones. Like

    Shopping Cart
    Faucet (where did that come from?)
    Oftentimes

    And my real hate.

    Monday thru Friday ( instead of to Friday)


  • #120
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,110 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    crosstownk wrote: »
    Thing is, petrol, as it's called this side of the pond, doesn't light as a liquid. Only the vapours (gaseous) light. So in a way, 'gas' is correct.

    I know. For liquids and solids to burn, they first have to be pyrolized/vapourized and it is these 'gases' that actually combust.

    If an American offered you a glass of 'liquid', to drink, would you not want to ask further details as to what sort it was? Wouldn't offering you a glass of water be better? If so, then I think you and the Americans are wrong. Gas is a generic term applicable to a wide range of things and I think it's stupid to call a liquid 'gas'. All flammable liquids become gas in order to burn, not just petrol.


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  • #121
    440Hertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 651 ✭✭✭440Hertz


    Faucet came from an anglicisation of Old French and refers to a bung for a vent hole in a barrel or that sort of thing - like a bigger version of a cork.

    Faucet makes absolutely no sense in modern French. Tap is a robinet.


  • #122
    vafankillar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 574 ✭✭✭vafankillar


    roommate instead of house mate.


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


  • #123
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,512 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


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


  • #124
    vafankillar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 574 ✭✭✭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


  • #125
    Curlysue76
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,725 ✭✭✭Curlysue76


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

    Or dessert even


  • #126
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,110 ✭✭✭✭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, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,543 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #128
    OscarMIlde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭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.


  • #129
    scotchy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,205 ✭✭✭scotchy


    Ive had to explain "runners".

    In the US its sneakers.

    And in Britain its either trainers, or plimsoles.



    .

    💙 💛 💙 💛 💙 💛



  • #130
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,386 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


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


  • #131
    scotchy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,205 ✭✭✭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: 492 ✭✭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...


  • #133
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,901 ✭✭✭✭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 :)


  • #134
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,110 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Wash your mouth out with soap, frog.


  • #135
    The Great Gatsby
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭The Great Gatsby


    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?


  • #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.


    .

    In Cork it’s “rubber dollies”


  • #137
    Fritzbox
    Registered Users Posts: 492 ✭✭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?


  • #138
    Arthur Helpless Dart
    Posts: 13,688 ✭✭✭✭ Arthur Helpless Dart


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

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

    Go on...


  • #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


  • #140
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,386 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    The Americans are managing OK with what we sent over.



  • #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


  • #143
    con___manx1
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    The way they say route annoys the **** out of me.


  • #144
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    breezy1985 wrote: »
    Its tackies or nothin kid

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


  • #145
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,027 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #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.


  • #147
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


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

    OK. Yoda.


  • #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 !!!!!


  • #149
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,580 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.


  • #150
    con___manx1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭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
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭The Great Gatsby


    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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