I must have missed that memo. My childrens' schools have Headmasters. The one down the road has a Headmistress. The words are perfectly ok to use. Colleges have Principals.
Thank you for this!
I'm so tired of everything being Americanised. It started years ago with trick or treating. Secondary schools became high schools. Kids started having proms. Pregnant women now have baby showers. The different series of a programme became seasons. Now apparently the head teacher is called the principal. Have the different terms become semesters yet? It's only a matter of time.
Can we please stop blindly following the Americans in everything they do and keep our own traditions and vocabulary?
I'm so tired of everything being Americanised. It started years ago with trick or treating. Secondary schools became high schools. Kids started having proms. Pregnant women now have baby showers. The different series of a programme became seasons. Now apparently the head teacher is called the principal. Have the different terms become semesters yet? It's only a matter of time.
Can we please stop blindly following the Americans in everything they do and keep our own traditions and vocabulary?
American's speak English after all, they've taken far more from Britain in words they use and say than the people here picking up on some of their phrases.
People use English in different ways and are going to use words that we wouldn't use here because it's practiced all over the World and it would be unfair to tell them what to do, but so what - they're using English after all, which is a good thing.
In American TV right now there are loads of British actors and shows featuring British people using their accents and slang, they're taking from us too. It's not a case of big America influencing small Britain to speak like them. It's working both ways - they're speaking far more English than us using Americanized words.
American's speak English after all, they've taken far more from Britain in words they use and say than the people here picking up on some of their phrases.
People use English in different ways and are going to use words that we wouldn't use here because it's practiced all over the World and it would be unfair to tell them what to do, but so what - they're using English after all, which is a good thing.
In American TV right now there are loads of British actors and shows featuring British people using their accents and slang, they're taking from us too. It's not a case of big America influencing small Britain to speak like them. It's working both ways - they're speaking far more English than us using Americanized words.
Which British actors are using accents and slang in the US? All the ones I can think of are either pretending to be American or playing baddies.
I thought this week's episode was the best so far - largely because it mostly revolved around Frances De La Tour who is terrific in everything she does!
I haven't really gotten into this series as much as the first (but that's down to me not paying too much attention when its on because of trying to work from home lol), but I loved Friday's episode. Frances de la Tour makes me laugh every time :-D Think I'll have to catch up on all series 2 episodes saved on my planner soon.
I thought this week's episode was the best so far - largely because it mostly revolved around Frances De La Tour who is terrific in everything she does!
Agreed, delivered the best line I've heard in a comedy show for a long time last week.
When asked if she would be attending parents' evening she said 'I'd rather shit in my hands and then clap'
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We are loving it in our house too !!
Thank you for this!
I'm so tired of everything being Americanised. It started years ago with trick or treating. Secondary schools became high schools. Kids started having proms. Pregnant women now have baby showers. The different series of a programme became seasons. Now apparently the head teacher is called the principal. Have the different terms become semesters yet? It's only a matter of time.
Can we please stop blindly following the Americans in everything they do and keep our own traditions and vocabulary?
Theres a big difference between Grange Hill covering the issue of drug addiction compared to how drugs were featured in last nights episode.
American's speak English after all, they've taken far more from Britain in words they use and say than the people here picking up on some of their phrases.
People use English in different ways and are going to use words that we wouldn't use here because it's practiced all over the World and it would be unfair to tell them what to do, but so what - they're using English after all, which is a good thing.
In American TV right now there are loads of British actors and shows featuring British people using their accents and slang, they're taking from us too. It's not a case of big America influencing small Britain to speak like them. It's working both ways - they're speaking far more English than us using Americanized words.
Having said that you'd probably do one where everybody is just depressed.
All we'd have to do is get the 'Big Book of Comedy Cliches' and copy from it.
This ^
Which British actors are using accents and slang in the US? All the ones I can think of are either pretending to be American or playing baddies.
Agreed, delivered the best line I've heard in a comedy show for a long time last week.
When asked if she would be attending parents' evening she said 'I'd rather shit in my hands and then clap'
Brilliant
And great she was in it so much more this week, she is brilliant, but with that line what would Miss Jones think!
Back next Friday, it made way for SCD.
Which one is he ?
He was the lad in the wheel chair, he was runner up in Britain's Got Talent.
Big School is as funny as a sledgehammer to the head.
I quite liked him, I found him funny. Is Simon Cowell getting a cut of his earnings.?
I bet he is, so nudged Walliams to write him in, I hope he not in it next week.