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Re:WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality by barbecue_sauce on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @05:18PM (#18860311)
Only in the context of being a Britishism that Americans occasionally use.
Re:WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality by Dylan16807 on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @06:39PM (#18860900)
> Only

Nope. Never in my life heard of it being a britishism.

Edit: A downvote for proving an absolute statement wrong?

"Bloody" is used as a britishism. "Wee" is not, at least in many areas.

Re:WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality by blacksmith_tb on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @07:35PM (#18861249)
Not in the urine sense, but as in "a wee problem" it's got strong British (mostly Scots, really) overtones for me.
Re:WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality by Dylan16807 on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @08:14PM (#18861449)
Yes, I've seen that use.
Re:WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality by yellowbuilding on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:13PM (#18871471)
When people use it, they probably won’t add “that was a britishism I just used”. You interpret that through... eh, cultural analysis.
Re:WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality by jamisteven on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @04:43AM (#18863550)
Have lived all over the US, "wee" is most definitely used.
Re:WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality by Dylan16807 on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:33AM (#18866044)
As a Britishism? I didn't say it wasn't used at all.
Re:WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality by JohnFen on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @07:52PM (#18861342)
I guess, if you squint just right -- but only in the same sense that it's true of most American English.

Those uses of "wee" (particularly the "urine" meaning) have been common in the US for far longer than I've been alive. Nobody thinks of them as "britishisms".