Americanisms

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Do you like Americanisms?

  • Yes, they are better than British spelling

    Votes: 53 15.9%
  • No, proper English should be used

    Votes: 118 35.4%
  • I don't care at all

    Votes: 95 28.5%
  • I prefer a mixture

    Votes: 67 20.1%

  • Total voters
    333
Worse than "deplane?" Every time I hear that come over the intercom on an airplane (that's an aircraft or aeroplane to you blokes) I feel a little sick, and I've lived here my whole life.

Of course, I guess we could create a new thread chock full of stupid things they say on planes.

I hate that word, sounds like they are going to take the plane apart on the tarmac or something.:lol:


One thing that really bugs me is spaghetti sauce, it's called pasta sauce, spaghetti is a dish you make with it.
 
Mike Rotch
Catsup anyone?

i.e. tomato sauce.

Ketchup is actually a patented word so other companies who don't want to pay have to say catsup


Also, "it is what it is" I admit I use this quite often

Also, "120%" so you did something 100% satisfactorily and only 20% a second time?(in need of sarcasm font)
 
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"...One thing that really bugs me is spaghetti sauce...it's called pasta sauce...spaghetti is a dish you make with it.

I don't know about you, but I USE spaghetti sauce when I'm cooking WITH spaghetti pasta..aka "long noodles"...

When I cook a creamy fettuccine (Ribbon Cut Noodle) carbonara, I'll use a nice Alfredo sauce.

Likewise, if I'm making Lasagne, then I use a 'white sauce'...

Thus, as you can see, all these dishes are made using various types of pasta noodles, but not all the pasta dishes use a generic 'pasta sauce'.
 
I don't know about you, but I USE spaghetti sauce when I'm cooking WITH spaghetti pasta..aka "long noodles"...

No, you are using a red pasta sauce.

When I cook a creamy fettuccine (Ribbon Cut Noodle) carbonara, I'll use a nice Alfredo sauce.

Why not call it fettuccine sauce?

(Oddly enough, someone has asked me for "fettuccine sauce" at the store I work at, scarily it was for the school orders we fill, those orders are written by home economics teachers :nervous:)

Likewise, if I'm making Lasagne, then I use a 'white sauce'...

Why not Lasagne sauce?

Thanks for proving my point while trying to prove me wrong though.

Thus, as you can see, all these dishes are made using various types of pasta noodles, but not all the pasta dishes use a generic 'pasta sauce'.

Never said there was only one type.

Spaghetti = A dish made with a red pasta sauce.
 
Not to mention "Niamh", pronounced neeeev.

Or Cholmondeley, pronounced "Chumly". Or Fetherstonehaugh, pronounced "Fanshaw". Or Woolfardisworthy, pronounced "Woolsry".

In fact, someone called Trevelyn St. John Cholmondeley-Fetherstonehaugh would have quite a tricky time down at the DMV...
 
No, you are using a red pasta sauce.



Why not call it fettuccine sauce?

(Oddly enough, someone has asked me for "fettuccine sauce" at the store I work at, scarily it was for the school orders we fill, those orders are written by home economics teachers :nervous:)



Why not Lasagne sauce?

Thanks for proving my point while trying to prove me wrong though.



Never said there was only one type.

Spaghetti = A dish made with a red pasta sauce.

:ouch::ouch::ouch::ouch::ouch::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:

BECAUSE! Fettuccine means little ribbons and refers to the actual pasta. You're both wrong. If you want to call the red stuff something, it's tomato sauce. If you had spaghetti or fettuccine sauce, you might assume that it's a sauce made out of the pasta. That doesn't make any sense.
 
^ This +1,000,000. 'Red sauce' I presume is Neapolitan or Arrabiata or something.

Heathens! *walks off shaking head and tutting*
 
Pasta/red/white sauces aren't specific names, they're just mother terms..
Any sauce than can be used with pasta is a pasta sauce.
If it is white, it is a white sauce, if it's red it's a red sauce.
If you are making lasagna then you may call it a lasagna sauce, likewise with other shapes of pasta, be it noodles, spaghetti, fettuccine, penne etc..
I.E. a red sauce used when cooking penne you could call a penne sauce (I might kill you for using such an americanism though ;)), but it would still be a red sauce and a pasta sauce.
 
Crisis in...

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England.
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Explain?
 
Crisis in... England

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Explain?

Um, well I'm pretty sure that definition of the word was first coined on Top Gear. I never heard it used that way before Clarkson mentioned it on one of the TG episodes a while back.
 
Um, well I'm pretty sure that definition of the word was first coined on Top Gear. I never heard it used that way before Clarkson mentioned it on one of the TG episodes a while back.

Well that's where I heard it first. Pretty sure I heard it somewhere else too.

Top Gear is my portal into the UK. :P
 
Um, well I'm pretty sure that definition of the word was first coined on Top Gear. I never heard it used that way before Clarkson mentioned it on one of the TG episodes a while back.

Well that's where I heard it first. Pretty sure I heard it somewhere else too.

Top Gear is my portal into the UK. :P

It's not a TGism. Nor is it a Britishism. It's a "romance novelism".

Essentially, there's an entire class of novels read by middle-aged housewives that are basically about some people having sex with each other. For reasons of frequency, padding and audience they can't just say it up straight, they have to use a series of euphemisms. We won't visit them at this point, but they are plentiful and ludicrous, but "crisis" is one of them and one that means a female orgasm specifically.
 
Getting back to "Americanisms," one that has bothered me for a while is "wholesale" as an adjective, e.g wholesale destruction, wholesale panic, or wholesale stupidity. See how it works? But why?
 
Because "wholesale" often implies "in quantity". But yeah.

I didn't know this was an Americanism though. Seems more like something the Brits would say, to me.
 
Essentially, there's an entire class of novels read by middle-aged housewives that are basically about some people having sex with each other. For reasons of frequency, padding and audience they can't just say it up straight, they have to use a series of euphemisms.

Well, American Women fought for hundreds of years for equality in government, voting, civil rights, and workplace rights and laws, and even for gender-neutrality in language. All of that gets erased the moment a ladies magazine has to say "vajayjay" on its cover...Way to go.

What year is it, again?
 
A few I can think of:

Those little coloured sprinkles you put on donuts, cakes, and other confections are called "Jimmies" in certain parts of the U.S. Weird.

A "hoagie" is what some of the northeastern U.S. calls a submarine sandwich.

I remember visiting the UK as a kid and being slightly alarmed when my under-10 brain didn't know that a torch was a flashlight. One of my cousins suggested we all go grab some torches and take them up to the treehouse.
 
^We call them 'Hundreds and Thousands' (???)


I have really started to hate the use of the word 'Someplace'.
IT IS SOMEWHERE!!
 
MikeTheHockeyFan
A few I can think of:

Those little coloured sprinkles you put on donuts, cakes, and other confections are called "Jimmies" in certain parts of the U.S. Weird.

A "hoagie" is what some of the northeastern U.S. calls a submarine sandwich.

I remember visiting the UK as a kid and being slightly alarmed when my under-10 brain didn't know that a torch was a flashlight. One of my cousins suggested we all go grab some torches and take them up to the treehouse.

I hate when people say "jimmies", as there is no male on my ice cream.

Hoagies are what I've been calling subs my whole life, so that is never going to change!
 
A few I can think of:

Those little coloured sprinkles you put on donuts, cakes, and other confections are called "Jimmies" in certain parts of the U.S. Weird.

Being the car freak that I am, my mind immediately jumps to the GMC Jimmy.
 
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