Are you sure you don't mean "off of"?

How about people using their cells on speakerphone. I was on a train from NYC, a 1 hour journey and there was a guy on his speakerphone the whole way.

Whatever

The number thing......two hundred eighty instead of two hundred and eighty. The host on one of our local radio stations says 7 clock instead of 7 o clock.

That would annoy the living snot out of me.

I have also noticed that a lot of Americans cannot comprehend "double" as in spelling out a name L Y double N E. I spelt it that way to one lady on the phone and she read it back as "LYWE".

A lot will also say "one time" as opposed to once.

My other pet peeves are:
overages
arrearages
and winningest

No, thats also an Alabama thing.

Also the use of forty seven hundred dollars rather than four thousand seven hundred. Does anyone know why the Americans will refer to wood as a 2 x 4 whereas in England we call it a 4 x 2.

I'll remember that one & use it next time, thanx!

Me too! He must be a twat!

I can accept most of the phrases I hear - different parts of England have their own slang too but 'where you at?' is one of the few that gets me. Boost Mobile even use it as their tag line .

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