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BB13 Big Brother 13 started June 5th 2012 on Channel 5, and was won by Luke A. Discuss here.

View Poll Results: Does it annoy you when people Americanize our series
Yes it annoys me 9 22.50%
Yes it annoys me
9 22.50%
Couldnt care less 27 67.50%
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27 67.50%
No i like it 4 10.00%
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Old 08-05-2012, 11:12 PM #76
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In Britain we refer to a show as a series as a whole as well as it's individual series.
In America, I believe, they refer to a show as a series and it has individual seasons.
Yes, I think we got that a while back. lol

He was just saying how he understood the words to mean something different.
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why does it matter what americans say on youtube ? :S its not like were going to go out of our way to change our vocabulary to make all of yous feel better
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Couldnt give a toss stuff like this is really pedantic and life is way too short for it

And tbh BBUS is better than todays BBUK.
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why does it matter what americans say on youtube ? :S its not like were going to go out of our way to change our vocabulary to make all of yous feel better
I always thought Canadians got very upset when referred to as "American". lol
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Couldn't care less. It's stupid and pretty petty tbh
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If the show itself starts Americanising then we can worry. But for now, it's not.
Exactly.

The only thing that kinda gets on my nerves is when people say those facing the public vote are 'up for nomination'.

It's up for EVICTION. ALL the housemates have to nominate!

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