of a study into children&8217;s writing are anything to go by.  The analysis of 74,000 short stories found that their written work was littered with Americanisms, exclamation marks and references to celebrities.  Researchers who looked at the entries to a national competition found they were increasingly using #
 Americanisms: Children's work was littered with words such as garbage, trash can and sidewalk (picture posed by models) The stories, written by pupils aged seven #