Researchers have catalogued the British words and phrases most used in US conversation, sparking delight and frustration<\/p>\n
The Americani(s)zation of British English is often described as a linguistic disaster <\/strong>\u2013 frustrations over imported words or usages, from \u201cawesome\u201d to \u201cATM\u201d, are well documented.<\/p>\n But in recent years, there\u2019s been growing interest in the opposite phenomenon: Britishisms that have made their way into American English. These days, it\u2019s not uncommon to hear Americans describing a single event as a \u201cone-off\u201d or noting that a perfect assessment is \u201cspot-on\u201d.<\/p>\n Amongst <\/strong>(rather than \u201camong\u201d), whose use has nearly quadrupled in the US over the past four decades<\/p>\n Queue<\/strong>, whose frequent use on tech platforms such as Netflix has given its British meaning \u2013 what Americans would generally call a \u201cline\u201d \u2013 new life in the US<\/p>\n Wonky<\/strong>, meaning a bit off<\/p>\n Cheeky<\/strong>, meaning a bit naughty or indulgent, as frequently used by Mike Myers<\/a> (a Canadian with English parents) on Saturday Night Live in the 1990s<\/p>\n Snarky<\/strong>, often used to describe early internet discourse and sites such as Gawker<\/p>\n Cheers<\/strong>, which has long been used while clinking glasses in the US but has started to mean \u201cthanks\u201d in some contexts<\/p>\n Keen,<\/strong> meaning enthusiastic<\/p>\n Maths, <\/strong>rather than just math, which has become more familiar in the US due to international academic work and social media<\/p>\n Nil, <\/strong>meaning zero, which is turning up in online gaming<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Researchers have catalogued the British words and phrases most used in US conversation, sparking delight and frustration The Americani(s)zation of British English is often described as a linguistic disaster \u2013 frustrations over imported words or usages, from \u201cawesome\u201d to \u201cATM\u201d, are well documented. But in recent years, there\u2019s been growing interest in the opposite phenomenon: … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}