Americano.
No I'm not talking about the coffee, I am talking about the use of Americanisms in the English language. Now personally I have never been a language snob and feel that the English language has altered and evolved so many time that is impossible to be so, but I do have a small issue with the alteration of language for know apparent reason.

I was sat this morning watching Sunday morning kids TV with poppy and as usual there was lots of stuff going on that may tired brain could not fathom, but I suddenly heard something that made my ears prick up. The presenters were mucking about with a wand pretending to be a Wizard and all of a sudden the guys trousers disappeared (don't ask me it was 6.30am) and the other presenter said:

"Jamie, Your pants have disappeared"

I'm sorry did I hear that right?

Jamie: "Ahh my pants are gone" runs off.

This is kids TV hang on (brain now fully awake and finger on speed dial ready to complain about perversion on kids TV) what the hell is going on?

Jamie: "Phew that was close"

OHHHHH Trousers. So lets get the record straight.

The Oxford English dictionary:

Pants, plural noun 1, Brit. underpants or knickers. - ORIGIN abbreviation of PANTALOONS.
Trousers, plural noun an outer garment covering the body from the waist to the ankles, with a separate part for each leg. - ORIGIN from Irish trius and Scottish Gaelic triubhas; related to TREWS.

Yes I know in America pants means trousers but I don't live in America so leave it alone the word trousers is perfectly good thank you.
And can some one tell me how to switch the Word spell checker (every spell checker come to that) so that it does not keep insisting I spell colour without a u, I like my u and I'm not going to change it, so stop bloody asking.
Oh and one other thing in the UK we use Petrol, in the states you use Gasoline (basically a watered down version of the petrol here in the UK and Europe).

Ahh that feels better I can go back to watching Friends now.
- posted by J @ 21:49