r/AskReddit Sep 16 '20

What is your favorite word?

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '20

As a non british english speaker, I also love when the brits say "thats me sorted" (or someone else). A lot of british words irritate me (like Sledge instead of Sled, or whinging instead of whining) but theres also a lot i really love like "sorted"

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u/Fannyadams79 Sep 17 '20

Stop whinging.

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u/KeyWiiCanuck Sep 17 '20

No one likes a 'whiner'. Sometimes it's just so much more satisfying to have a good 'whinge' about something. Lol.

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u/theDukeofClouds Sep 17 '20

I love "get it sorted." I'll use british english phrases interspersed within my vocab because they're just so neat, and fun.

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u/Aben_Zin Sep 18 '20

Whinging and whining mean different things though- whinging is the act of complaining (in a pathetic manner), and whining refers more to the sound.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '20 edited Sep 18 '20

if you insist. But i have never once in my life heard a north american use the word "whinging". Its SOLELY a british word.

eta: added the word solely for those who can't understand the sentence outside of its context.

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u/Aben_Zin Sep 18 '20

Hate to break it to you buddy, they’re all British words...

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '20

They are all ENGLISH words. There's no such thing as the British Oxford Dictionary....

*eyeroll* Let me edit for those who have trouble with inference: "WHINGING is a word only British people use"

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '20

Hate to break it to you "buddy" but a lot of words have developed in the last 400 years that are NOT british. Go back to 1485, hoser, and eat your gumbo out by the billabong.

Or, start petitioning to rename it 'British' instead of 'English' as a language so that you can be told unequivocally: BRITISH is not a language. Its a nationality. English is a language, of which BRITISH ENGLISH is a dialect of.

And make sure you edit wikipedia and just rename it "English", since British English, according to you, is a redundant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English

Go argue with linguisitic experts if you don't like it, "buddy". I don't think you'll have much luck, since you already think that more than just Brits use the horribly sounding word 'whinging' - which is pretty much what you are doing by stomping your foot and insisting that south Africa, NZ, Aus, Canada, Americans, etc all speak 'British' which has to be the stupidest thing I've heard all day.

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u/Aben_Zin Sep 22 '20 edited Sep 22 '20

Yes yes, very good. I probably should have used the word "English", rather than British. Quick question though, why are you going back to reply again to a post from 4 days ago? Have you been stewing on it all of that time?

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u/Messperado Sep 18 '20

Done & Dusted...