Which British words are now commonly used by Americans?

Speaking to the Today programme’s Evan Davis, Ben Yagoda a professor of English at the University of Delaware who writes a blog about British-isms that have entered language in the States, said people use British-isms when they want to sound a “little bit different” or “clever”.

Dr Lynne Murphy, a reader in linguistics at the University of Sussex and author of the blogSeparated by a Common Language, said that, when it comes to a difference between British and American English, “pronunciation-wise, we are getting much further apart”. More.

See: BBC

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