Phrases which offend..

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

If we are talking about annoying phrases, I'm sure I use loads of them, but I personally hate "can you borrow me" something.

[Asset]

If we are going to get on to 'Americanisms'

'in back of'

'second of all'

[citizenED]

Good on you Forumites, stamp out those horrible Americanisms, malapropisms and general slovenly use of English.

signed, Lynn Truss

[SimonM]

>>Remember me to your mum" I know that used to be common, but it just sounds so wrong<<

Oh it is! especially when you remember the Ernest Heningway/Spanish variation - "Remmeber me to that whore, thy mother"!

[Jah Lush]

Any Americanism or murdering of the English language annoys me and offends my ears. Even when people say "Hi" or "Hiya" instead of "Hello". Also, people constantly saying "know what I mean" or putting "innit" on the end of every sentence, assuming they can string one together in the first place. Ignorant people with little vocabulary or erudition. Blockheads!

[Nero]

Hiya might be seen as US English in some parts, but in 70s Stockport and other parts of the northwest, 'iya' was a very common expression and not at all influenced from abroad. I am not really into 'hi' but I sometimes use it in text speak as 'hello' takes a bit longer. Nero

[TillieTrotter]

I say hiya, picked up from my scouse friends and family.

[Keef]

I too say Hiya a lot, but only since I lived in the pool.

[SimonM]

"Ay oop!" - general Yorkshire

"Nahh den!" Yorkshire but Sheffield especially, for example: first chap "Nahdann!! ahdagoin?", second fellow "aright, ah dahhhh?" (translation on request if required)