There always has been and always will be Americans who think Britons speak and write a higher class of English.This, of course, is nonsense. American English is the transplanted language of Shakespeare. Yet there are those who think colour is more elegant and the theatre shows more class. This was always amusing. A rack of sunglasses in the drugstore was the family eye care centre.
Lately, however, Briticisms are cropping up in speech and this is another matter altogether. It is somehow harder to ignore Richard Roeper on At the Movies describe a film character as "spot on", or newsreader Anna Davlantes on Chicago’s WMAQ-TV report that the injured from a car crash were "taken to hospital". Someone’s been watching too much BBC America. Can a bloody wanker be far behind?
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