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Interesting article from the BBC website: BBC News - Britishisms and the Britishisation of American English
I'm not sure if the website is accessible outside the UK, so apologies if you can't see the article. I imagine a Google search for my thread title might bring up something in your area.
The spike in three of the graphs around 1980 is amazing. I wonder what caused that!Quote:
Originally Posted by emsr2d2
It would be interesting to see other variants and the Americanisation graphs to compare.
That article is spot on.
As one expert says in that article, Americans are not upset by the number of Britishisms, for many Americans consider
British people to be very "posh."
That's weird - I wrote about this article on that day on my blog!
London English Classes: The Britishisation of American English