BS: Do you say 'You're welcome'?

Subject: RE: BS: Do you say 'You're welcome'?
From: Becca72
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 03:47 PM

In my professional life I say "you're welcome" or "you're quite welcome" but in my personal life I tend to use "no problem" or "you bet" or some other such informal term.

Subject: RE: BS: Do you say 'You're welcome'?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 03:43 PM

Mick, I believe that the Brits don't customarily use that particular phrase reflexively, the way we do in the States. Even those folks who are generally "polite."

Thre are other responses to "thank you" used more commonly than "you're welcome" in other English-speaking cultures, i.e., "no worries," and apparently (as I was informed in that other thread) "cheers" as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Do you say 'You're welcome'?
From: Big Mick
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 03:27 PM

Am I getting this wrong? Are you saying that Brits don't thank someone for a kindness? Or are you referring to the contraction form of "You are welcome" to "You're welcome"?

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Do you say 'You're welcome'?
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 03:25 PM

My English partner is 57, and he teases me whenever I say it because he perceives it as an Americanism.

Subject: RE: BS: Do you say 'You're welcome'?
From: Big Mick
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 03:25 PM

This isn't just a UK thing. I have heard folks make the same observation here in the States. I am not willing to throw good manners under the bus in the name of "times are different now". Poor manners are poor manners.

Just my 2 dollar bill's worth,

Mick

Subject: BS: Do you say 'You're welcome'?
From: Noreen
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 03:20 PM

Another poster averred on the Sloe Gin thread that "They don't really say 'you're welcome' in the UK".

I beg to differ, although I accept that it is probably mainly those of an age with myself and my family who still do maintain this form of politeness.

..and there are more in the UK younger than there are older than me as I am less than two weeks away from my 50th birthday...