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Nov
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Fancy Learning A Few Britishisms Today?

Categories: Vocabulary Building Words, Vocabulary for Success, Vocabulary Research |

When the Colonies severed ties with England, they also started the evolution of what’s now commonly known as American English. Grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary are sometimes so different between the two countries now that even native speakers of English sometimes get confused when talking to their counterparts “across the pond” – something we’ve talked about in previous posts on the difference between British English and American English. For two hundred years after the Revolution, when it took days or even weeks to get from one country to another, there wasn’t a great deal of influence by one side on the other. However, now that the whole world is connected by airplanes and the internet, that’s changing fast. The BBC’s “Dr. Who” series has fans in Louisville as well as in London, and teenagers in Leeds flock to the new Hollywood releases just as they do in Los Angeles. It’s not surprising that British vocabulary words are being used in American conversations, as the BBC News Magazine noted recently. Here are some of the transatlantic terms they found:

ginger
A red-headed person.

one-off
Something that happens only once.

cheeky
Disrespectful or insolent, but often in a humorous way.

mobile (pronounced MOH-bile, second syllable pronounced like “eye”)
A cellular phone.

twit
A silly person, a fool.

fancy
To want, to wish for, to like.

What words have you noticed drifting into America from England, or vice versa? What about words from other English-speaking countries, like India or Australia?

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