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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just for fun...

What are the most (mildly) irritating habits or things your in-laws do?

I’ll start:
Despite being born/raised in the US, MIL refers to the US as “the States.”

When an ambulance drives by with a siren on, FIL makes a big show out of clamping his hands over his ears until it passes.[/quote]

I call the US ‘the states’ too, what is wrong with that? It is more accurate than calling it America. [/quote]

It's almost exclusively used by non-Americans, so it comes off as affected.  To me, at least.  I love my MIL, but she's a total snob and obviously sees herself as a very cultured person, so I do think she does it to seem more European/sophisticated.  [/quote]

This is totally wrong. In the past of the Midwest I’m from, almost everyone uses the phrase “the States” to refer to the United States. I do it sometimes and it’s just a regionalism. No one from my hometown fancies themselves as a sophisticate. [/quote]

*part. I see someone upthread said they used this in Pennsylvania. I’m from Western New York. We also say “the Smiths.”  It seems like people are unnecessarily bothered by perfectly normal regionalisms. [/quote]

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