Nice to see so many peeves on here I agree with...
Do you say 'Can I get' instead of 'Can I have'?

If you do and you're not actually an American person could you stop it please?
Thanks awfully.
(Engine, Fri 2 May 2008, 16:24, closed)

ironic
as mine is people who say can instead of may! we are just intollerant fuck bubbles really. Lifes too short.
(bobbypires you've got red on you, Fri 2 May 2008, 17:12, closed)

Is
that actually an Americanism? I never knew!

I don't remember which one I use. I'm wincing right now.
(TheWonderfulWombat has renounced his slave name and is now PantsMcGee, Fri 2 May 2008, 22:46, closed)

I say this
but it comes from living and working with 'Merkins, I've picked up quite a few of their mannerisms. Though the one that really rankles me is "Do I gotta do this?"

I should point out that any Americans in my proximity tend to pick up a lot of Britishisms too. They even say "fags" for cigarettes these days.

Though I also work with two guys (English and Irish) who have taken this to extremes - they adopt a full-on yank accent when talking to our cousins from across the pond yet speak to me in their "normal" accents, which to me is just bizarre.
( emvee I wanna do bad things to you, Sat 3 May 2008, 15:32, closed)