Americanisms creeping in

And in New Jersey coffee pronounced cawfee ..

So and so is a real, “Smart cookie.” My answer? Yeah they are a real biscuit for sure.

I realize this can be annoying perhaps for some people, but it doesn't bother me.
I can't think of any expression that would. The spelling can be different also.
I understand that new words are being added to the Oxford English Dictionary all the time.
I think we have to realise that language evolves, we don't speak like we did a 100 yrs ago.

Oooh, I do agree with that one boody.

I hate the `can I `get` a coffee`...grrr!

I just wish my new laptop would stop reverting to an American Spell Checker every time it does an update.

Yes, no one talked of cabs in Glasgow in the 1950s. We took taxis.

Actually, there are lots of catch phrases going the rounds that are not actually Americanisms - someone already mentioned "no worries" - typical Australian English.

Happily, a lot of these annoying expressions go out of fashion again. Does anyone still say that something is "dead nice"? I remember being told off for using that one when I was six.

My father's generation "dropped a clanger" if they were ex-RAF, my grandmother having won an argument had "put her neighbour's gas on a peep" and I am sure these expressions annoyed others in their day.

Gosh and gee willakers! I don't wonder you're all stressed out if little things like this throws you into a conniptions fit

And I suspect every one of you repeats, without even being aware of it "you know" when you're in conversation.

I once recorded a friend of mine who absolutely insisted she never said "you know" and even bet money on it = 10 cents for every "you know".

I made $2 in 30 mins

I was seated on an aircraft awaiting departure on one occasion in the 1970s when the PA system announced that we would "...be taking off momentarily". On arrival the passengers were advised to "...prepare to deplane...". These messages were delivered in an American accent despite the airline being Japan Airlines! The infection spreads worlwide...

What about 'way more' instead of much more? Hate it.

caregiver...hate it!

I NEVER buy anything that says Only or Just,! That is for me to decide not the people selling the stuff

I read somewhere that the popularity of Peppa Pig has led to English accents creeping into American kindergardens.
I think that's really sweet!

Its a family joke in our house - I am often hear saying "Never underestimate the power of Peppa Pig"!!

Thought of this thread listening to Miriam Margoyles reading Bleak House. Dickens talks about 'foot passengers'. Pedestrian was used to mean dull. I don't know when pedestrian in its current usage became more common in BrE usage or whether it was AmE usage but I bet loads of people hated the loss of 'foot passenger' and shook their cross little fists at an imagined Americanism.

The American spellings came in after Independence because (I think) Noah Webster wanted a distinct form that was different from British English. It might have been another American dictionary chap though, my memory is a bit hazy these days.

I've always liked American spellings. Generally, they seem simpler and more logical than their English counterparts.

jura2 she's on twitter too as Lynneguist

Londongranny- thanks for that. Great.

Perhaps more a problem for me, is the use of grammar. I spend ages teaching the difference, for instance, of 'well' and 'good' - and then my students hear 'how are you'' 'oh I'm good thank you'.

I don't have a problem with Americanisms as such, but I do find myself getting annoyed at American spelling, color for colour etc.

There's an American professor at Sussex University who does a great blog on this. As it happens many Americanisms went across the Atlantic with Brits long long ago and as language evolves (no-one writes 'shew' instead of 'show' these days, although my granny did) we tend to think of these old UK usages as horrid new-fangled Yankee abominations.

Link to the Prof's blog separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com

Meh!

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Just to cheer everyone up that the traffic is not all one way, some Americans are disconcerted by Anglocreep.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19929249

www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/10/are-you-anglocreep/322654/

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/britishisms-in-american-english_n_5b69a9ede4b0b15abaa73cff