#americanisms — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #americanisms, aggregated by home.social.
-
Do people say this in the US? Over here we might start with "by the way" but not "this is unrelated"; and "a frog's leg " not "a frog leg"
-
🔴 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **Bonkers for Britishisms: the UK terms Americans have embraced**
Matthew Cantor
_Britons have long argued that Americanisms are “poisoning” or even “killing” their language, but it must be alive and well, since some Americans vent about the opposite; they feel that their compatriots are being a bit twee when they “impersonate an Englishman”._
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/12/uk-british-terms-america-most-used.
#News #Linguistics #English #Language #Britishisms #Americanisms @linguistics
-
🔴 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **Zed or Zee? How pervasive are Americanisms in Britons' use of English?**
-
My partial boycot of the USA is extending out to #Language.
I'll be using #Boomers to refer to mature male kangaroos, evaluating tone to interpret meaning and looking critically at #Americanisms.
To replace the Australian language lost to #CulturalInvasion I'd like to bring Aboriginal words. But I know very very few of them. Will try.
But the criminal language of the majority of the #WhiteInvaders is available to me.
So coves, back to the best.
#FlashLanguage
https://www.freesettlerorfelon.com/flash_language.html -
Why do we persist in still calling them "letter openers" and not "envelope openers"?
AFAI, I haven't sent or received any letters in the 21st century.
You could make a case for greeting cards like holiday or B-Day card which might contain a letter inside with the card.
#ArchaicEnglish #Americanisms #Terminology -
A few thoughts on Americanisms in Irish English, and the tricky case of 'mom':
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2023/05/21/mom-vs-mam-and-americanisms-in-irish-english/#language #dialect #linguistics #IrishEnglish #Mastodaoine #Americanisms
-
Article on the rise of 'mom' and other Americanisms in Irish English (with a few quotes from me): https://archive.ph/sa55d
#language #dialect #linguistics #IrishEnglish #Ireland #Mastodaoine #Americanisms