American english conquering Britain

[QUOTE="FrostyPhantasm"]I spilt some fairy cake on my dinner suit so i put it in the dustbin on my pavement for the dustbin lorry to take away. I spilt some cupcake on my tux, so i put it in the garbage on my sidewalk for the garbage truck to haul away. I'll stick to murrican words with british spelling.Iszdope

I spilled some cup-cake on my good shirt, so I put it in the rubbish bin on my lawn for the garbage man to take to the dump.

Fair dinkum.

Edit: Dump.

[QUOTE="Iszdope"]

[QUOTE="FrostyPhantasm"]I spilt some fairy cake on my dinner suit so i put it in the dustbin on my pavement for the dustbin lorry to take away. I spilt some cupcake on my tux, so i put it in the garbage on my sidewalk for the garbage truck to haul away. I'll stick to murrican words with british spelling.SolidSnake35

I spilled some cup-cake on my good shirt, so I put it in the rubbish bin on my lawn for the garbage man to take to the dump.

Fair dinkum.

Edit: Dump.

[QUOTE="SolidSnake35"][QUOTE="Iszdope"]

I spilled some cup-cake on my good shirt, so I put it in the rubbish bin on my lawn for the garbage man to take to the dump.

Fair dinkum.

Edit: Dump.

toast_burner

[QUOTE="Iszdope"]

[QUOTE="FrostyPhantasm"]I spilt some fairy cake on my dinner suit so i put it in the dustbin on my pavement for the dustbin lorry to take away. I spilt some cupcake on my tux, so i put it in the garbage on my sidewalk for the garbage truck to haul away. I'll stick to murrican words with british spelling.SolidSnake35

I spilled some cup-cake on my good shirt, so I put it in the rubbish bin on my lawn for the garbage man to take to the dump.

Fair dinkum.

Edit: Dump.

[QUOTE="SolidSnake35"][QUOTE="Iszdope"]

I spilled some cup-cake on my good shirt, so I put it in the rubbish bin on my lawn for the garbage man to take to the dump.

Fair dinkum.

Edit: Dump.

FrostyPhantasm

LOL Daily Mail. Ninja-Hippo

LOL indeed

Dustbin lorry?:lol::lol:

Garbage truck makes a lot more sense.

:lol: Daily mail, though if you actually look at the statistics with most of the words

[QUOTE="Shottayouth13-"]Dustbin lorry? This is a good change if anything. [QUOTE="br0kenrabbit"]

Next, we're going to start working on those units of measurement. LOL kilometres...errr...I mean kilometers LOL.

Super-Mario-Fan

It won't, thanks to Farenheit (ovens, weather) and yards (American Football).

Dustbin lorry?:lol::lol:

Garbage truck makes a lot more sense.

topsemag55

[QUOTE="SolidSnake35"][QUOTE="topsemag55"]

Dustbin lorry?:lol::lol:

Garbage truck makes a lot more sense.

Iszdope

No. A rubbish bin is where you bin rubbish.

[QUOTE="topsemag55"]

Dustbin lorry?:lol::lol:

Garbage truck makes a lot more sense.

SolidSnake35

Garbage and trash are synonymous. Dust =/= trash, dust is what a vacuum cleaner takes out of your carpet.:P

[QUOTE="SolidSnake35"][QUOTE="topsemag55"]

Dustbin lorry?:lol::lol:

Garbage truck makes a lot more sense.

topsemag55

Garbage and trash are synonymous. Dust =/= trash, dust is what a vacuum cleaner takes out of your carpet.:P

:lol: Daily mail, though if you actually look at the statistics with most of the words[QUOTE="Super-Mario-Fan"]

[QUOTE="Shottayouth13-"] But the imperialism system should die a horrible death.markop2003

It won't, thanks to Farenheit (ovens, weather) and yards (American Football).

Yeah, it won't happen not because there are actual difficulties in implementing it, but because people over here lose their sh*t if you try to change a lightbulb.

Maybe I do put dust in my bin.SolidSnake35

I do empty the vacuum cleaner into the trash can, but I could never call it a bin.:P

Oh my god who cares

I walked into this thread expecting children to be using sh*t like "color" or "flavor", thank god it's just something stupid like this.

I was kinda surprised to see that garbage, trash can, and candy are all American words that aren't usually used in Britain, though I do think British people usually use the word rubbish instead of garbage.

The odd thing is that this article says that American words are being more commonly used, but it seems that actually a lot of British words are still being used more often. Though I can see why people might find certain American words more appealing than their British counterparts: Tuxedo vs. Dinner Suit, Cupcake vs. Fairy Cake (are they baked by Peter Pan?), Garbage truck vs. Dustbin lorry (can you picture an American man from the hood saying he drives a Dustbin lorry for a job?).

I could have told you that years ago. So much stuff here is from America, I don't think I've ever even heard someone under the age of 60 use the word Advertisment correctly

Lots of butthurt Brits ITT. It's s'okay guys. You can still refer to cupcakes as fairy cakes. :lol:

AMERICAN WORD OCCURRENCESBRITISH WORD OCCURRENCESCandy (1,879)Sweets (2,448)Cupcake (486)Fairy cake (46)Flashlight (99)Torch (2,736)Garbage truck (9)Dustbin lorry (5)Tuxedo (74)Dinner suit (1)Sneakers (38)Trainers (555)Trash can (38)Dustbin (290)Sidewalk (26)Pavement (924)

The odd thing is that this article says that American words are being more commonly used, but it seems that actually a lot of British words are still being used more often. Though I can see why people might find certain American words more appealing than their British counterparts: Tuxedo vs. Dinner Suit, Cupcake vs. Fairy Cake (are they baked by Peter Pan?), Garbage truck vs. Dustbin lorry (can you picture an American man from the hood saying he drives a Dustbin lorry for a job?).

whipassmt

[QUOTE="SolidSnake35"][QUOTE="topsemag55"]

Dustbin lorry?:lol::lol:

Garbage truck makes a lot more sense.

Ninja-Hippo

Yeah, it won't happen not because there are actual difficulties in implementing it, but because people over here lose their sh*t if you try to change a lightbulb.

theone86

I would switch lightbulbs, if compact fluorescents were better than regular bulbs.

lolololol Daily Mail.

I wouldn't trust that news source at all, its like the British version of Fox news. Half of their stories are about how the Muslims are secretly infiltrating every part of British society and want to ban Christmas.

Isn't the USA allowed to be anywhere today anyway? In language, media, military.
Secretly we are handing the world to the USA so that they have to do all the work.

I find it kinda funny that so many British singers seem to lose their accent while singing. A few keep it but for the most part even the heaviest British accent disappears. For the longest time i had no idea that Ozzy Osbourne was UK nor that the lead singer of AC/DC was too.Kurushio

[QUOTE="whipassmt"]AMERICAN WORD OCCURRENCESBRITISH WORD OCCURRENCESCandy (1,879)Sweets (2,448)Cupcake (486)Fairy cake (46)Flashlight (99)Torch (2,736)Garbage truck (9)Dustbin lorry (5)Tuxedo (74)Dinner suit (1)Sneakers (38)Trainers (555)Trash can (38)Dustbin (290)Sidewalk (26)Pavement (924)

The odd thing is that this article says that American words are being more commonly used, but it seems that actually a lot of British words are still being used more often. Though I can see why people might find certain American words more appealing than their British counterparts: Tuxedo vs. Dinner Suit, Cupcake vs. Fairy Cake (are they baked by Peter Pan?), Garbage truck vs. Dustbin lorry (can you picture an American man from the hood saying he drives a Dustbin lorry for a job?).

Ninja-Hippo

That is because you have been americanized.

[QUOTE="Kurushio"]I find it kinda funny that so many British singers seem to lose their accent while singing. A few keep it but for the most part even the heaviest British accent disappears. For the longest time i had no idea that Ozzy Osbourne was UK nor that the lead singer of AC/DC was too.theonlylolking

Next step is for Brits to take the marbles out of their mouth.

Lots of butthurt Brits ITT. It's s'okay guys. You can still refer to cupcakes as fairy cakes. :lol:

airshocker

Lots of butthurt Brits ITT. It's s'okay guys. You can still refer to cupcakes as fairy cakes. :lol:

airshocker

Simply linking an article, a daily mail one at that, and not adding anything. This does not constitute a thread

Overlord93

142 posts and counting. Mad?

[QUOTE="Overlord93"]

Simply linking an article, a daily mail one at that, and not adding anything. This does not constitute a thread

Storm_Marine

142 posts and counting. Mad?

I say Bin and Bin Lorry, I'm not aware of anyone in Northern Ireland says anything diffrent to that and I call them tea buns or normally just buns.

Done, next question.
I find the words they picked rather hilarious though the ones that arn't being used are hardly the traditional British term and the ones that are the traditional term like sweets has a huge majority in usage compared to the American version.
I dislike American spelling, I don't mind there words too much.

[QUOTE="br0kenrabbit"]Can I get a FVCK YEAH!?!?DarkOfKnight

Lots of butthurt Brits ITT. It's s'okay guys. You can still refer to cupcakes as fairy cakes. :lol:

airshocker

I'm not butthurt. I'm just terrified of ever having to use a poor man's English.SolidSnake35

No matter that American English is taught basically all throughout the world, amirite?

Butthurt, lol that coming from a nation that's hated globally is so funny.

OmenUK

Haters gonna' hate, fairy cakes.

[QUOTE="markop2003"]

:lol: Daily mail, though if you actually look at the statistics with most of the words[QUOTE="Super-Mario-Fan"]

It won't, thanks to Farenheit (ovens, weather) and yards (American Football).

theone86

Yeah, it won't happen not because there are actual difficulties in implementing it, but because people over here lose their sh*t if you try to change a lightbulb.

Well, I was speaking metaphorically about the act of changing a single lightbulb, not about switching over to CFLs (as in you change something as simple as a lightbulb, which needs to be changed at some point anyways, and people will lose their sh*t). Since you bring it up, though,

"CFLs use one-fifth to one-third the electric power, and last eight to fifteen times longer. A CFL has a higher purchase price than an incandescent lamp, but can save over five times its purchase price in electricity costs over the lamp's lifetime."

[QUOTE="SolidSnake35"]I'm not butthurt. I'm just terrified of ever having to use a poor man's English.airshocker

No matter that American English is taught basically all throughout the world, amirite?