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 two posts per month
- First post on
Posts per month
| Month starting | Posts |
|---|---|
| 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 | 0 |
Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.
Most recent posts
My book Gobsmacked: The British Invasion of American of American English–which is of course based on this blog–has gotten a lot of nice attention in the couple of weeks since it’s been out. I plan …
Nancy Friedman is one of my favorite writers on language, so I was over the moon to read her write-up of my book Gobsmacked! I can’t imagine a better appreciation of what I’ve tried to …
Green’s Dictionary of Slang says this term for “idiot” is “usually Irish.” Green’s gives quite a few alternative spellings — “edgit, eedjit, eegot, eejut, e-jit, ejot, idjeet, idjet, idjit, idjut, ijet, ijit, ijjit, ijiot, ijut” …