Survey reveals the Americanisms that are slipping most into British children's speech

Of 10,000 U.K. teachers surveyed, 50% reported hearing their students say "trash" or "garbage" instead of the more typical ...
The Economist

Americans are chuffed as chips at British English

Gobsmacked! The British Invasion of American English. By Ben Yagoda. Princeton University Press; 288 pages; $24.95 and £20 British intellectuals enjoy bewailing the influx of Americanisms into the ...
The Atlantic

The American Language

TROUGH Mr. Mencken’s book on our language has the rare distinction among philological works of deserving to be read especially for its faults, it has, so far as word-mongering is concerned, a distinct ...
Business Insider

10 surprising language differences I encountered as an American visiting Scotland for the first time

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