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Americanisms that annoy me


Thorin

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Silly abbreviations, usually for people's names: Lilo, J-Lo, SuBo (Susan Boyle), Jedward (yes I'm sorry to say I've used that last one in another thread). If you don't have time to say the words "Susan Boyle" but still want/need to talk about her, then I think you have very serious issues that need urgent attention. God help you if something happens in your day that delays you by 30 seconds. That would put the rest of your decade behind schedule.

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The drop of u from words such as "colour" just to be different.

Or just to simplify spelling (and, apparently, to correct the corruption of the English language by the British aristocracy).

Wikipedia - Webster's Dictionary

Wikipedia - Noah Webster

 

 

Or use Z instead of S.
Er.. actually, they are, arguably, correct. "Z" was in common use when American English split from real English. We changed, they didn't.
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