BBC

Americanisms: 50 of your most noted examples

The Magazine's recent piece on Americanisms entering the language in the UK prompted thousands of you to e-mail examples. Some are useful, while some seem truly unnecessary, argued Matthew Engel in ...
The Atlantic

Some Alleged Americanisms

Searching for Americanisms is the pettiest subdivision of the pettiest department of literature, — verbal criticism. A terrible example of the destructive uncertainty which attends this envious ...
The Atlantic

Assorted Americanisms

All words and phrases that could by the largest and most liberal use of the term be called Americanisms may, I believe, be properly ranked in one of these classes. Now it happens that the list under ...
The Economist

Americanisms in Britain, Britishisms in America and a house divided at the BBC

WHO'S overseeing coverage of language at the BBC? My guess is "no one". In August BBC America published "10 Things Americans Say...And What They Really Mean." The list of "irritating" and "baffling" ...
The New York Times

Americanisms in the Bonaparte Library.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...