American English you ask for someone to please pass the salt.
In British English you first apologise for it: “I’m very sorry, excuse me, would you mind, could you please pass the salt, thank you very much”
In British English you first apologise for it: “I’m very sorry, excuse me, would you mind, could you please pass the salt, thank you very much”
(edit: but after writing this I note that ‘would ya’ is a contraction of ‘would you kindly’, so maybe I have defeated my own point)
One would be far more likely to hear "Oi, cunt, the salt" here in Blightly than in the USA.