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Irritating American names for things

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    #362
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    murpho999 wrote: »
    Fall (Instead of Autumn)

    I like that term, it's evocative and has a certain drama to it.

    Also I believe it's an artefact from ye olde Englishe.


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    #363
    km991148
    Registered Users Posts: 4,275 ✭✭✭km991148


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    Garbage truck = Bin lorry.

    Truck in general.

    Lorry or HGV..


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    #364
    cj maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,355 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    I think a lot of posters here need to take their heads out of their fannies :)


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    #365
    440Hertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 651 ✭✭✭440Hertz


    Nothing worse than people from somewhere else doing things slightly differently. How dare they!


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    #366
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,883 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Mind your business. Instead of mind your own business.


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    #367
    Widye
    Registered Users Posts: 52 ✭✭Widye


    'Shirt' for a t-shirt.


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    #368
    Widye
    Registered Users Posts: 52 ✭✭Widye


    'Hate' for criticism.


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    #369
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Just let me grab my pullover and we'll go to the store for some candy.


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    #370
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,162 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Mind your business. Instead of mind your own business.

    I could care less


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    #371
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,741 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    I like that term, it's evocative and has a certain drama to it.

    Also I believe it's an artefact from ye olde Englishe.

    Some of their words are old English usage preserved in aspic.
    Curb, Tire, Trash, etc.

    https://www.abroadintheyard.com/new-fangled-american-words-and-spellings-which-are-rooted-in-old-england/


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    #372
    440Hertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 651 ✭✭✭440Hertz


    the purple tin wrote: »
    Just let me grab my pullover and we'll go to the store for some candy.

    They’d more likely say sweater. Pullover tends to refer to cars.

    Also if you say it’s cold & you’re going to put on your jumper, bear in mind it’s a sleeveless dress in the USA.


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    #373
    Kaybaykwah
    Registered Users Posts: 3,085 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    We were just hangin' out with you guys.

    Just hangin', you know?

    You guys!

    You guys, where have you been hangin'?

    You guys.


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    #374
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,487 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    You guys has an interesting history.

    https://time.com/5688255/you-guys/


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    #375
    maudgonner
    Registered Users Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    I've been watching way too much CNN today, and have learned that (at least some) Americans have the same approach to the word 'votes' as they do to 'maths' - i.e. they insist on using the singular.

    "There's a still lot of vote to be counted in this state" :mad:


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    #376
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,695 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Silver33 wrote: »
    An irish person saying the word "awesome" drives me mental. It just sounds fake..:D
    An American using the word "awesome" drives me mental. It just sounds fake..:D

    Here it's bringer of wonders, there it describes anything that doesn't suck big time.


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    #377
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,449 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    You guys has an interesting history.

    https://time.com/5688255/you-guys/

    This is quite appropriate for today, which is Guy Fawkes Day. :)


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    #378
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,449 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    maudgonner wrote: »
    I've been watching way too much CNN today, and have learned that (at least some) Americans have the same approach to the word 'votes' as they do to 'maths' - i.e. they insist on using the singular.

    "There's a still lot of vote to be counted in this state" :mad:

    They do the opposite with Lego.

    "Do you want to play with your Legos?".


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    #379
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,695 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    maudgonner wrote: »
    I've been watching way too much CNN today, and have learned that (at least some) Americans have the same approach to the word 'votes' as they do to 'maths' - i.e. they insist on using the singular.

    "There's a still lot of vote to be counted in this state" :mad:
    If Trump gets his way then it will be an uncountable noun.


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    #380
    Bricriu
    Registered Users Posts: 280 ✭✭Bricriu


    'Regime-change' instead of 'coup' involving hundreds of thousands of deaths that are never mentioned by 'imbedded' (our guys!) journalists.


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    #381
    mrsdewinter
    Registered Users Posts: 2,116 ✭✭✭mrsdewinter


    Dufflecoat Fanny wrote: »
    poop

    Can we talk about how US terms for digestion issues is so jarring to our ears?

    It sounds so childlike and so graphic! Yet it seems like it's quite acceptable to use it in mixed company, with a straight face.


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    mikhail
    Registered Users Posts: 3,863 ✭✭✭mikhail


    Bricriu wrote: »
    'Regime-change' instead of 'coup' involving hundreds of thousands of deaths that are never mentioned by 'imbedded' (our guys!) journalists.
    Embedded.

    Coup is normally internally lead. Conquest with the aim of installing a puppet regime isn't normally called a coup, I think.


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    #383
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    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").

    Aluminium becomes al - loom- in - um


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    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,144 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    Aluminium becomes al - loom- in - um

    the yanks have it correct on this. Aliminum is what its discoverer called. It was only changed to aluminium to fit in with the other elements that end in -ium


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    #385
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,449 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    'Butt': the way it is pronounced and the way more and more Irish people are saying it. It is said in a short, sharp burst, and usually barely pronouncing the t's. My nephew might say something like "I fell on my butt" but the relaxed cadence of his speech suddenly changes for that one word with an abrupt 'buh".

    And it's worse when adult Irish people do it...


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    #386
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,741 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Military ops names, "Operation *insert cheesy name*"

    Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation All American Tiger, Operation Airborne Dragon, Operation Cobra's Anger..etc.


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    #387
    US2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,651 ✭✭✭US2


    The way the pronounce words like

    Route - Row-t

    Semi- Sem-eye


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    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,487 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005




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    #389
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users Posts: 8,094 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    kravmaga wrote: »
    Garbage engineer = Binman

    Literally never heard that. Trash or garbage collector is what they say, or sanitation worker if you want to be fancy about it.

    Apparently there are sanitation engineers but thats a different thing
    Wibbs wrote: »

    Well IIRC that has an interesting history which goes back to the 19th century and before cars. Gasoline was originally a trademark of a "motor spirit" producer, though and again IIRC it was spelled "Gazolene" with a zed the "gas" thing coming later?

    Don't you mean "zee" ? :p


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    #390
    kowloonkev
    Registered Users Posts: 2,120 ✭✭✭kowloonkev


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    I could care less

    This one really bugs me more than any pronunciation. Do they even know what they're saying?

    I will defend the use of 'soccer' a term which has its roots in the game and is not something invented by Americans in order to differentiate between their sport of Football and the English game. It annoys me more that Irish people will argue this point for some reason and comes across as very petty.

    I also like the term 'Shopping Mall' as it differentiates between them and the tiny little shopping centres we would see in Ireland and a lot of Europe where space is at a premium. Shopping malls have hundreds of shops. A Tesco with a pharmacy, barbers and pound shop in the same building is not a mall.


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    #391
    smilerf
    Registered Users Posts: 2,579 ✭✭✭smilerf


    Restroom
    Wtf do you have a little snooze while you are taking a crap
    Waste paper basket sidewalk and bath tub
    They love Big names for things


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