Watching TV the other day...

Rocker

.. one of those Pawn Shop programs, I noted how the Americans say thirty four hundred for our three thousand four hundred.

Any other "differences" you can think of.

underdog

My biggest annoyance at the moment is film trailers say out November twenty three or November thirty one, when the hell did this start? It's always been the twenty third, or thirty first. It's just not right.

Handsome_Chris

underdog said:

My biggest annoyance at the moment is film trailers say out November twenty three or November thirty one, when the hell did this start? It's always been the twenty third, or thirty first. It's just not right.

So that doesn't mean out November 2033 or November 2031 then?  Does this mean that I've missed The Expendibles then?

underdog

Handsome_Chris;397588" said:

underdog said:

My biggest annoyance at the moment is film trailers say out November twenty three or November thirty one, when the hell did this start? It's always been the twenty third, or thirty first. It's just not right.





So that doesn't mean out November 2033 or November 2031 then?  Does this mean that I've missed The Expendibles then?

Sorry to being to be the one to break it to you mate

randomhandclaps

A difference I have noticed is how they all sing with an American accent where as here only about 95% of people sing with an American accent.

Handsome_Chris

underdog said:

Handsome_Chris;397588" said:

underdog said:

My biggest annoyance at the moment is film trailers say out November twenty three or November thirty one, when the hell did this start? It's always been the twenty third, or thirty first. It's just not right.





So that doesn't mean out November 2033 or November 2031 then?  Does this mean that I've missed The Expendibles then?

Sorry to being to be the one to break it to you mate

Oh FFS!  Is the sequel out soon? I need to know so that I have time to catch up on the plot?

thermionic

I love the way they drop the h when they say "herbs", as if it gives them a European air of sophistication. Hilarious!

I once had an argument with an American who used the term "burglarized" when referring to a break-in at somebody's house. No no no I said, the verb is "burgle", the person doing the burgling is a burglar and you don't need to create a new verb from a noun!

holnrew

I think they say that because of their street numbering system. Every block they start with a new hundred.

Another difference is that they have such perfect teeth, they look wrong.

mike_l

Saying aluminum instead of aluminium. wankers.

spark240

Although I do prefer fender to bumper... Bumper Strat would never have caught on...

Col_Decker

Saying Antony, but somehow putting some extra Fs in there to make 'Antff feny'.

strumjoughlamps

underdog said:

My biggest annoyance at the moment is film trailers say out November twenty three or [b]November thirty one[/b], when the hell did this start? It's always been the twenty third, or thirty first. It's just not right.

:-O

chillidoggy

Words like 'unfriend' grind my gears. And the spelling of any word which replaces 's' with a 'z'

breakstuff

I hate all this darned creeping Americanization.

sinbaadi

Creeem freeesh.
I could care less.

viz

The ize is an old English construct from the 16th century. We've only adopted -ise in the last few 100 years or so from French influences, whereas the Americans have stayed faithful to the pure English version.

I love it when Americans say 'excuse me' for sorry, so when they bump into you by mistake and want to apologise, they say 'Excuse me', and we think they're being rude and saying 'get out of my way' after they've walked into us! So we glare at them, but say sorry anyway. And they think we mean 'pardon' when we say sorry. So they say 'excuse me' again, just at the moment that we're getting out of their way anyway. So we think they're being even ruder. But then we think they surely can't be that rude, so we assume they mean 'pardon' for the 2nd 'excuse me', so we say 'I said sorry'. But they think we're not just repeating it but pointedly explaining that we'd already apologised, so they say 'well excuse ME', which angers us so we say 'Sorry?', etc.

Axe_meister

I got into big trouble when working in the States, when I stated I was going out to "smoke a fag".

Also a girl in the office had come back off sick leave having had a "fanny tuck", she went on to explain 

she could hold two pencils with her fanny. I said that is rather a lot of information, an jokingly said,

your husband must be happy. She didn't quite get it.

Then it dawned on us than fanny has quite a different meaning depending where we come from. 

CHRISB50

The feeling that anything over 100 years old is practically pre-historic.

jd0272

viz said:

The ize is an old English construct from the 16th century. We've only adopted -ise in the last few 100 years or so from French influences, whereas the Americans have stayed faithful to the pure English version.

They need to get with the groove. 

jd0272

Col_Decker said:

Saying Antony, but somehow putting some extra Fs in there to make 'Antff feny'.

Is that not London's East End?

Philly_Q

Col_Decker said:

Saying Antony, but somehow putting some extra Fs in there to make 'Antff feny'.

They also somehow manage to turn "Craig" into "Creg".