WHY DO PEOPLE POST USING AMERICAN ENGLISH?

Or capital letters for that matter.

Mom - American
Ma or Mam - Irish
Mum - UK

Probably the Anglo American culture that is constantly delivered to our TV screens, phones etc.

Who gives a toss? You do the math.

Have a nice day

And can I GET a coffee please?

No I get you the coffee ****.

The **** is ass and hole.

some are American/English

Geez Louise! What is the problem with you guys?

This is a whole new ball game!

The use of Bunch as the collective noun for everything gets on my tits.  In my day it was only used for bananas or fives.

Get outta here!

One difference that always puzzles me is when my Anerican friends say "I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less."

Get in the hole!

could be "I could care less" but i ain't gonna bother

mind you ,that doesn't make sense

but then couldn't care less doesnt make sense

just as well i'm good with numbers

Not sure if its an Americanism but 'you guys' whether guys or gals is used a bit too much.

guiys tends to be used for both sexes ,never heard gals before

Wow what an awesome thread, They seem to use those 2 words to describe the most banal, inane ****, excluding this fred of course and it's esteemed participants.

*brown stuff.

They seem to be easily excited. Everything they do they're 'Soooo Excited'

Juvenile Tw@@@ts.

"Britain and America Are Two Nations Divided by a Common Language", GBS.

Unfortunately as said above TV has changed all that.

Sadly some of us don't know the difference..and care even less

We are exposed to both American English and English English through our media

The grammar checker has to sought that out

"gotten" and "right there" are my pet hates.

Never liked 'snuck' as in sneaked up.

i deliberatley say cell phone instead of mobile - but then it sounds better - mobile sounds clumsy .

'gotten is also better sounding imo .

I agree with you, gotten-wise. I get/I got/I've gotten is consistent with I forget/I forgot/I've forgotten and represents an improvement on the British version imo.

'I could care less' is idiotic, though.

I think 'Mom' is midlands or northern.

If you called your mother 'Mum' round here when I was a kid, you would be considered a 'nancy boy'.

my grandpappy never called me by my first name it was always boy, Mom always said it's the way it is junior.

'Guy' was British slang in Victorian times. Originating from 'penny for the guy' , a man would be called a guy if he didn't give the kids their penny and it became more generally used as a jokey insult.

Americans copied this . In Britain it fell out of fashion but in America continued and lost it's pejorative meaning.