Originally Posted by Lynne

No, thats also an Alabama thing.

Originally Posted by User Name

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But then again, when I was driving to my new post-doc at Bath University, I asked someone on a country lane if I was going the right way for Bath. He looked at me sideways and up-side-down, and then from top to bottom, then bottom to top and said (starting off slowly), I've never heard of Bath, but Baaaattthhhh is that way. :D

Originally Posted by Patrick

What ever happened to the word twice? Why do Americans use "two times" instead of twice. I noticed it on an advert the other day now I cant stop listening for it, no-one says twice, why, why, why?

Originally Posted by nethead

Oh he couldn't have been local, everyone knows it's Baaaaff ;)

The number thing annoys me too, why do they say twenty-five hundred instead of two and half thousand? I don't get it.

The really annoying phrases that grate with me are:
too fun (WTF?)
too cute (puke).

Originally Posted by Sarah

Same goes for "whilst"

Originally Posted by Sugarmooma

This one annoys me. Loud people on cell phones starting the conversation with........"where you at?"
Is that just a Texas thing or is it all over?

Originally Posted by Sarah

A yank friend of mine told me I was too funny once. I had no idea what the frig she was talking about but I thought it sounded like a stupid thing to say.

Originally Posted by Elsie The Maid

I just tell them "somewhere between the "a" and the "t" - which is probably just as annoying! :D

Originally Posted by Lynne

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".

Originally Posted by Englishmum

Another one I often overhear when people are talking on their cellphones is .....'she axed me/I axed him' instead of pronouncing 'asked'. It is soooo irritating! (Actually I've noticed that it is mainly black people who say this but I don't know why?).

Originally Posted by Angry White Pyjamas

Try telling them something happens "twice a month" then when they say "Huh?" say "You know...fortnightly"

Originally Posted by BigDavyG

Pronounciation ???
How about:
Craig = Creg
Caribbean = car-ribean
Guyana = Gwee-ana
Aaron = Erin

Originally Posted by nethead

The number thing annoys me too, why do they say twenty-five hundred instead of two and half thousand? I don't get it.

Originally Posted by Desdemona

You forgot:

Aluminum
Nukiller = nuclear (solely patented to George W. Bush)