Americanisms

01/03/2019 26 min
Americanisms

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Episode Synopsis

Is the slow creep of Americanisms into the British vernacular a pernicious assault on our linguistic heritage, or should we just chill?

Things mentioned in this podcast
Goncalves etc al (2018) on the Americanisation of English: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.00781.pdf
Britishisms in US English: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19929249
Differences in US and English Harry Potter editions: https://www.hp-lexicon.org/differences-changes-text/

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