Gobsmacked! The British Invasion of American English
Kerfuffle, one-off, go missing, gobsmacked: a catalogue of the British words quietly colonising American speech.
Ben Yagoda tracks the traffic in the less-noticed direction, cataloguing the Britishisms that have entered American English and roughly when each crossed. It works as a straight read or as something to browse, and the entries are precise enough to settle arguments about which side of the Atlantic a given expression actually came from.
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Tyler Cowen
Ben Yagoda, Gobsmacked! The British Invasion of American English is great fun, either to read or to browse. I do for instance use some of these words: one-off, go missing, curate, early days, kerfuffle, easy peasy, and cheeky.
Source · October 2024
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