Not One-Off Britishisms
British words and expressions that have got popular in the U.S.
- By Ben Yagoda
- Based in United States of America
- Roughly three posts per month
- First post on
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| Sep 2022 | 4 |
| Oct 2022 | 1 |
| Nov 2022 | 2 |
| Dec 2022 | 3 |
| Jan 2023 | 1 |
| Feb 2023 | 3 |
| Mar 2023 | 3 |
| Apr 2023 | 1 |
| May 2023 | 3 |
| Jun 2023 | 4 |
| Jul 2023 | 4 |
| Aug 2023 | 2 |
| Sep 2023 | 2 |
| Oct 2023 | 1 |
| Nov 2023 | 1 |
| Dec 2023 | 4 |
| Jan 2024 | 2 |
| Feb 2024 | 3 |
| Mar 2024 | 1 |
| Apr 2024 | 1 |
| May 2024 | 2 |
| Jun 2024 | 0 |
| Jul 2024 | 1 |
| Aug 2024 | 1 |
| Sep 2024 | 4 |
| Oct 2024 | 2 |
| Nov 2024 | 1 |
| Dec 2024 | 2 |
Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.
Most recent posts
It’s always instructive to look at H.L. Mencken’s The American Language,, which was originally published in 1919 and went through many editions before Mencken released the second and final “Supplement” in 1948. In his chapter …
It started when I sent an article from the sports news site New York Times sports site The Athletic to my tennis buddy Don Lessem, who occasionally uncorks an underarm serve. The article was about …
This caught my eye in the New York Times the other day: That word, “cleaner,” wasn’t familiar–I imagined it meant what Americans would call a cleaning lady, a cleaning person, a custodian, a janitor, basically, …