The most annoying expressions...

You're right, it doesn't.  It just happens to be the way us Brits pronounce it.  But come on, when asking about a drink, and I come up with a 2 syllable word beginning with "w" which the wait staff doesn't quite understand, could I possibly mean H2O?

Sometimes if I ask for iced water, that breaks the ice so to speak.

I've never heard an English person pronounce water that way, and the only reason I could even think of someone doing it, would be if they were taking the piss and trying to do a really bad mockney accent.

I've never heard an English person pronounce water that way, and the only reason I could even think of someone doing it, would be if they were taking the piss and trying to do a really bad mockney accent.

Well I am a southern softie, and we do pronounce things a little differently to the geordies.  Perhaps a more correct phonetic spelling would be wore-tuh.  Is that a little closer?

I definitely don't mean to take this piss out of the wait staff when I ask - its just that I'm generally thirsty!

Well I am a southern softie, and we do pronounce things a little differently to the geordies.  Perhaps a more correct phonetic spelling would be war-tuh.  Is that a little closer?

I would say most British people I know pronounce it 'wah-tuh'.  Still no 'r' in the word.

And wait staff over here have the exact reaction when I say 'wah-der' like I would in the US.  So it's not a US-only problem you have!

anesthesiologist - another case of the yanks taking a word and making it unnecessarily longer.  Try anaesthetist.

The first thing I thought when I saw this was: 'orientate'?
Plus I think 'anesthesiologist' is a lot easier to say than 'anesthetist'. 

I really don't like 'ta'.  I don't know why, I just don't. 

And at the risk of being a total outcast, I have this thing about people referring to others as 'Mate' by people that aren't actually friends.  I find it condescending.

And wait staff over here have the exact reaction when I say 'wah-der' like I would in the US.  So it's not a US-only problem you have!

Interesting - for some reason I expected it would be less of a problem going the other way.  Especially with all the exposure to US accents in films and on the telly.  You have my permission to tell the wait staff to pull their finger out!

Plus I think 'anesthesiologist' is a lot easier to say than 'anesthetist'. 

I could be wrong, but I think that an anesthesiologist and an anesthetist are two different things in the US, with different qualifications.  They both work with anesthesia but maybe the anesthesiologist is a doctor and the anesthetist is a nurse?

I could be wrong, but I think that an anesthesiologist and an anesthetist are two different things in the US, with different qualifications.  They both work with anesthesia but maybe the anesthesiologist is a doctor and the anesthetist is a nurse?

Yes, a CRNA in the US is a certified registered nurse anesthetist.  (I used to work in anesthesiology.)

Yes, a CRNA in the US is a certified registered nurse anesthetist.  (I used to work in anesthesiology.)

Thanks for the clarification geeta.  Lets consider that one struck from my list, and me now humbly educated in the ways of anesthesiology.

I'm so sick of hearing kids I work with say "snap".

What does that even mean!?!?!?

Round these parts "snap" is food....usually a packed lunch.

"I think you'll find..."  is right up there with "obviously" in my opinion.

Both are irritatingly superior and know-it-all, and even though I think people usually use them in order to put themselves on higher ground, I think it just makes them look rude and makes me want to strangle them.  Even if I'm right and they are wrong, which often seems to be the case with people who speak to others this way.    ;

This girl I used to work with would always say 'myself' or 'herself' or 'himself' which I always found really funny.  For instance if she was on the phone arranging a meeting she would say something like, "Right, so yourself will be meeting with myself at 3:00pm and if you just bring that report along with yourself, that would be great."  Not saying it's an UK thing... I just thought it was funny!

People who refer to themselves in the third person - I can't believe people actually do that! 

People who refer to themselves in the third person - I can't believe people actually do that! 

Chary doesn't like that either.

Chary also doesn't understand why some people say, "come with," rather than "come with me."

Chary doesn't like that either.

Then you're going to LOVE the current season of Project Runway!  Here's a little selection of quotes from the Constestant Known As Suede (yes, that's what he calls himself):

"Suede decided to cut out all these strips. Suede loves that."
"It is going to be a long night for Suede."
"Suede is a bisexual Sagittarius and loves long walks on the beach and really loves to work with small pieces of fabric."
"Suede is really sad."

Oy.

Chary also doesn't understand why some people say, "come with," rather than "come with me."

GGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRR---- hate that!