BBC - Americanisms: 50 of your most noted examples

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14201796

This is a bit silly.  Some of it doesn't appear to be Americanisms rather than just bad grammar.  Others are just words we say differently, like math and  maths, or period and full stop.  It's just the development of language!

And really, "transportation"?! From the people who say "orientated" rather than "oriented"?

And what's wrong with "train station" (#22)?  What else do you call it? 

"Gotten" came from here! 

I'm not sure "Can I get..." Is 90s New York so much as it's bad manners.  Kiddo says it all the time and it does my head in.  A lot of kids say that here and they certainly didn't get it from 90s New York, they weren't even born yet.

I've never heard "winningest" in my life.

"I could care less" is used by the same people who say "irregardless" and "for all intensive purposes".  It's not an Americanism!!! 

The British term is a railway station rather than train station, but most people use train station.
"Winningest" - I'm guessing you don't watch much sport, it's used a lot in the US.

The original article though was about Americanism creeping into usage in the UK, many of these examples are just Americanisms that seem to annoy people even if they've not come into usage here. Example "math", I don't recall hearing it in use here...similarly, "I could care less", I'd not heard it here, but hear it a lot in the US.

I agree that a lot of those are just plain bad grammar.

But I'll admit that 'my bad' makes me want to shoot someone.

The original article contained a lot of Britishisms that were preserved in American usage as British usage evolved.  "Gotten" definitely deserves to be added to the list of "original" English usage.  

A lot of the problem words or phrases annoy Americans just as much as they do Brits.

The original article though was about Americanism creeping into usage in the UK, many of these examples are just Americanisms that seem to annoy people even if they've not come into usage here.

And at least a few are from British expats in the US.  It seems less than newsworthy that Americans are using Americanisms in the US!

I'm American and "normalcy," instead of "normality," makes me cringe.

blah these drive me nuts but I always read them.  Even DH gets annoyed with some of them and he is British. You can ask for tons of opinions and all will be different but makes a great article haha

It drives me nuts when people say ‘I could care less.’  I’ve gotten (haha) so annoyed with it that on a bad day I’ll pretend that I don’t understand by replying ‘so you do care.’  This just leads to an explanation of why it sounds so odd to me.  I’ve actually managed to convert a handful of my friends and people in the office.  It’s a small step, but still a step.

Despite not living in the UK yet some of DF’s most used phases have crept into my automatically used language.  The other day a friend asked me about a bar and I said that it was always rammed.  She teased me.  Perhaps it’s not the Americanism or Briticism itself, but that its either not what your ear is accustomed to, or maybe its hearing out of someone you wouldn’t expect to?  When DF is over here and accidently says tomato the American way it just sounds wrong to me. 

God one of the comments mentioned the sizes at Starbucks.  It has been around for like 15 years. 

How being sick of hearing people comment on wanting a large not a venti?

The Starbucks thing is weird as its meant to be Italian. 

I never ever ask for ventis or whatever at Starbucks.  I always forget what sizes they are and i'd rather just order small/medium/large.  Maybe if their coffee was anything near the quality of Italian coffee I might feel inclined to use their terminology.  It's never been an issue at Starbucks so I don't know why someone in the BBC article used it as an example.  You don't HAVE to order that way.

Apart from that the only one that really irks me is the "I could care less" example.  Don't people think about what they are saying before they say it? 

Ever since my mother in law told me the Americanism "I'm good" instead of "I'm well" drives her nuts, you can guess what automatically pops out my mouth every time she asks how I am.

I don't mean to. We have a great relationship.

God one of the comments mentioned the sizes at Starbucks.  It has been around for like 15 years. 

How being sick of hearing people comment on wanting a large not a venti?

But why is the "tall" the shortest one?! Still....it's better than when they have a medium as the smallest they do - that really drives me mad, it's not a medium then is it?!

But why is the "tall" the shortest one?! Still....it's better than when they have a medium as the smallest they do - that really drives me mad, it's not a medium then is it?!

Because they're STARBUCKS and they think they're cool enough to make up their own stupid language.

(I hate it.)