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biglouis

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Re: Different to
« Reply #15 on: Feb 23, 2020, 05:08:38 PM »
Oh, you should have seen the "English" in the essays I had to mark at UNI.
The one which grated most on my nerves was  "alot" instead of a lot.
I also get letters from the local council with "straightaway" rather than two separate words.
The TV announcement my nephew gets annoyed at is "next, after the news"
No - its the news that is next! So why not just announce that its "after the news"

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Ashy

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Re: Different to
« Reply #16 on: Feb 23, 2020, 06:10:38 PM »
It gets up my nose when a shop announces something by way of a poster, that may be had "instore". Immortalised by Dire Straits in the 1990s, perhaps it is a normal Americanism, but in England it's "In the shop" if you please.

biglouis

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Re: Different to
« Reply #17 on: Feb 24, 2020, 03:13:28 AM »
Nowadays nothing is to take away, everything is "to go"
Parcels are packages and they are all shipped rather than posted. Customers do not shop in a shop, they trade in a store. Assistants do not serve customers, they wait on them.
Americans have pillows on their chairs not cushions, and comforters on their beds rather than quilts or duvets.
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Re: Different to
« Reply #18 on: Feb 24, 2020, 07:52:12 AM »
We get Briefings now rather than headlines, and in response to a question its "well yah know what"

klondike

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Re: Different to
« Reply #19 on: Feb 24, 2020, 07:58:06 AM »
Assistants do not serve customers, they wait on them.
In many town centre shops they spend most of their time waiting for them...
So long and thanks for all the fish