Have you replaced any British words with their American versions?

I like "garbage" when insulting something, it just has a nice guttural sound.

I'm hellbent on being a relic. Currently railing against the proliferation of "store". SHOP ffs. I look forward to everyone going storing.

I said "gen zed" the other day and everybody frowned and said "Don't you mean gen zee?". NO I FUCKING DON'T. Still fighting the good fight in pronouncing schedule with a soft sh but I think I'm in a small minority these days. I've given up trying to call it an aubergine emoji, we may as well accept it's an eggplant now 🍆

I make an effort to speak British English, and not let any American into my vocabulary. Not really sure what the point is, but I'm sure I had a reason at some point.

However, I do like saying "hood" instead of "bonnet", mainly because it's easier to say "under the hood" than "under the bonnet" when talking tech.

Become Canadian. We have poutine.

I'm American but would really appreciate it if aubergine caught on here across the pond. I know it's French (and from prior languages) but I commend the UK for sticking with it. In contrast, eggplant sounds so crude and unappetizing. If you've Americanized this one, please stop.

Also, we should all bring back a few Old English terms.

I use often use "movies" and "TV shows" instead of "films" and "telly series" and I am mildily disappointed with myself.

I feel I should use the Old English Fall instead of the French Autumn but it seems a step too far. Perhaps I could use Harvest.

I'm old enough to mostly have a British vocabulary. And, although I did live in Yanklandia for a year I seem to have come out relatively unscathed.

My kids (who watch too much Youtube) use a lot of American words and pronunciations. It's an ongoing struggle to get my daughter to say tom-ah-to.

I was gonna say, no self-respecting six-year-old wants to even consider zucchini.

American here, I tend to spell words the British way because they make more sense, and I've done it since I was a teenager, for some reason it pisses off my older brother lol.

Examples:

1. Grey
2. Defence
3. Offence
4. Theatre
5. Customisation
6. Analyse
7. Flavour

etc. etc.

I've gone the opposite way - I've been replacing my American pronunciations with the British ones, like leverage starts with lee, like in lever, and that (software) patent starts with pat not pait.

I think it's in response to my younger friends and colleagues sounding, to my ears, increasing American - they say gotten, zee, and on accident (things that are often more consistent, but just not cricket British). I'm old enough to remember the sound of dial up, so I probably wasn't as exposed to US media growing up.

I'm not even sure if I'm honest. NW England, my shits a mix of English, Cumbrian, Yorkshire, Scottish, Madeupish .. No doubt some American words in there that have snuck in like a bad smell.

I quite like shop in the sense of workshop, and I also rather like y'all.

I also often refer to whisky as scotch, though I feel like that is as much about making myself understood.

Biscuits for the win

How do you pronounce courgette?

Is it a hard g like get or a soft g like giraffe?

This is one British word I had no idea existed.

switching out the word ‘boot’ for ‘trunk’

What's the context of trunk there? Tree trunk? Car trunk?

I don't speak Bastardized English

"Are you in a rental?" That turns up so much that I'm struggling with the proper way. Do you rent? Are you a tenant? Do you have a landlord?

I’m American. I couldn’t come up with trunk so I called it a boot. Thanks to all those episodes of Top Gear I’m sure. Bonus is that my wife and I watch enough Dr. Who so that she knew what I was referring to.

I noticed in Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Gromit cares for a vegetable in his garden that they either call a ‘marrow’ in British English or ‘melon’ in the localized American export of the film.

“How’s that marrow/melon of yours coming on?” -Wallace

Please correct your child. Next thing you know he'll be defending the second ammendment and voting for trump

I use loads of americanisms and their spelling for words like color, the way I see it most the world is using English so least we can do is meet them 0 001% of the way on cresting a global odious language

I’m in Australia now and it’s zucchini and eggplant here, though in general words are much more like British English. No idea what’s going on with the pronunciation of “cache” here though - I work in tech and it’s mental how they say that. Like, Brits and Yanks are in full agreement about that word.

I'm all for Canola being the replacement for R@peseed but in just checking there does seem to be a difference between them (Canola is GM R@peseed)

https://www.thekitchn.com/whats-the-difference-between-canola-and-rapeseed-206047

okay, using the words listed at the start of this wikipedia article, here's where i place myself:

analyze/center/defense/labour/organize/program

or, British 1, American 5, Canadian 4, Australian 2

it's a nice litmus test to see where you're at. i knew i used to skew NA in writing style, but i didn't think by that much

Does your wee one watch a lot of American-voiced videos on YouTube or similar?