There's nothing wrong with Americanisms: it's management-speak that is the enemy of English &8211; Telegraph Blogs # There's nothing wrong with Americanisms: it's management-speak that is the enemy of English # A study of children’s writing by the Oxford University Press suggests that our language is being Americanised . Of course English as spoken here and as spoken in the USA have always played off each other – understandably – and the influence of American films # The examples of Americanisation culled by the researchers from OUP look pretty thin. Children apparently now write about cupcakes rather than fairy-cakes. Well, apart from the fact # sh Dictionary is a good guide, because Chambers has always taken an interest in American English. The 1872 edition included an eight-page appendix of Americanisms, printed in small type, three columns to the page. Nowadays it notes “U.S.” or “esp. U.S.”, if a word is more commonly found in American rather than # Be that as it may, there is nothing that should worry us about this sort of American infiltration of the language. Not only is a colloquial Americanism likely to be lively, useful and agreeable; it is often an English word or expression that has fallen out of use here and is now restored to us. # Tags: americanisms , chambers english dictionary , English , language # Is the Internet Americanising (or Americanizing) British English? &8211; Telegraph Blogs # Is the Internet Americanising (or Americanizing) British English? # t are we also starting to write like Americans? Is the combination of the Internet and US-designed spell-check programmes (or programs) hastening the Americanization of British English? # , “honey-coloured”, “antagonize”, “just how much” and “do you have?” (instead of “have you got?”) Hardly anyone these days thinks of these phrases as Americanisms. Yet “sidewalk”, “back of” (for behind) and “excuse me?” (if you haven’t heard someone) have failed to penetrate at all. “Mad” still means insane # finish on a positive note. In my own lifetime, there has been a comprehensive shift in Britain towards “ise” instead of “ize” in such words as, well, Americanize. You can see why it has happened: using both forms means having to remember which words can only be written with “ise”; but using “ise” is never wrong.# back elected sheriffs, local control of welfare, proper parliamentary control of the executive and the rest of the Direct Democracy agenda . It’s not Americanization; it’s repatriation. # Tags: Americanisms , Anglosphere , British Library , dialect , English language , internet # Top 10 most annoying Americanisms &8211; Telegraph Blogs # Top 10 most annoying Americanisms # But I don't mean simple Americanisms like stroller (pushchair), diaper (nappy), ladybug (ladybird), Mom (Mum), entrée (main course), Santa (Father Christmas), takeout (takeaway), # in the MoS (and mostly agree with your viewpoints!) However I feel that you are unjustly discrediting the English language and the absorbsion of &39;Americanisms&39; into the language. # It is not just Americanisms which change our language, but a whole host of words and expressions from other cultures. # The Americanism &39;Train Station&39; is more grammatically precise than the English &39;Railway Station&39;. Trains come to a standstill at stations (are stationary) # As usual you are the hypocrite, complaining about the Americanisation of our language while the paper you write for is adopting the American way of printing the date, June 4th!!!! # , in theory could be called a "road station" but it would be preposterous. At least "Train Station" makes sense, even if it is an Americanism. # The Americanisation of English English has been going for as long as I can recall. (I am now elderly, or what we now refer to in the American fashion, which often # This country, far more than most,is dominated by America economically, politically and, especially, culturally. It is likely therefore that the Amaricanisation of the way we speak will continue indefinitely. We do not have to rejoice in this manifestation of our subservience, however. # While I agree with Andrew Platt in his complaint about the vaccuous facility with which TV watchers adopt Americanisms, (I also think said Americanisms grate in an English/ wannabee American accent) what irritates me is, it points to these people having never been instilled with an instinct for their # BBC NEWS | Americas | 'Death to US': Anti-Americanism examined # 'Death to US': Anti-Americanism examined # He argues anti-Americanism is often a cover for hatreds with little justification in fact. His three part series takes him to Cairo, Caracas and Washington but it begins where # anti-Americanism began - in Paris. # And if anti-Americanism is alive and well among surprisingly mild-mannered people in Britain - how much more virulent must it be in tougher parts of the world? # Anti-Americanism was born in France. And here's a fascinating fact: it was born well before the United States existed. It was not caused by Coca-Cola, or McDonald's, # s celebrated here. And the point many French people make is that they would celebrate George W Bush, too, if they agreed with him. The source of anti-Americanism is plain they say. As one interviewee told us: "It's the policies, Stupid." # Well up to a point: in Paris there is plenty of evidence to be found that anti-Americanism is way more than that, that it's not simply reasonable opposition to the things America does. # The kind of anti-Americanism fostered by French intellectuals down the centuries revolves around intense dislike of what America is - not what it does . # It is time that we understood that this attitude, this contempt for what democracy can do, is at the heart of at least some of the anti-Americanism we see in the world today. # "Death to America": Anti-Americanism examined will be broadcast on Radio 4 over three weeks starting on 16 April at 2000 BST. # Anti-Americanism 'feels like racism' # BBC NEWS | Programmes | Is globalisation Americanisation? # Is globalisation Americanisation? # Globalisation needs to be de-Americanised - and genuinely globalised # Globalisation needs to be de-Americanised - and genuinely globalised! # The research also confirms the Americanisation of English continues apace. # BBC NEWS | UK | Anti-Americanism 'feels like racism' # Anti-Americanism 'feels like racism' # She says the level of anti-Americanism she has experienced "feels like a kind of racism". # It is little wonder that there is such a dislike and misunderstanding of Americans and American foreign policy when you consider the thread of anti-Americanism that runs through almost every related story that the BBC presents. Who do you think you are? Eddie Chalmers, Dundee, UK # Total Film critic Cam Winstanley says profit is the bottom line in the Hollywood Americanisation of World War II. # The growing Americanisation of our universities may be inevitable, but there are costs. Undergraduates are the cash-cows of American universities, herded through vast, impersonal # BBC NEWS | UK | Politics | Anti-Americanism 'dangerous' # Anti-Americanism 'dangerous' # Continued anti-Americanism could result in the US disengaging from the rest of the world with "dangerous" consequences, Nato General Secretary Lord Robertson has warned. # UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said he was concerned about "trite anti-Americanism" in the UK, arguing it had "become fashionable". # The programme, to be broadcast at 1900GMT on Monday, also looks at how much British anti-Americanism there is. # Lord Robertson, a former UK defence secretary, said: "Anti-Americanism I see not as a criticism of individual policies or # "I'm very worried about anti-Americanism because I think it is deeply corrosive to a relationship that is critically important for the overall # "I am worried about trite anti-Americanism in # anti-Americanism, and it's a convenient parody. # Healthcare: Why we shouldn&039;t fear the cry "Americanisation", Political News Politics On Toast # Healthcare: Why we shouldn&8217;t fear the cry &8220;Americanisation&8221; # More rational and fully-rounded thinking is required on this issue – there is more to becoming “Americanised” than only being able to shop in Wal-Mart or not being able to afford healthcare. # more than this, they deserve a higher level of debate about where their country is headed rather than blind assertions that the coalition is going to Americanise us. # Healthcare: Why we shouldn’t fear the cry “Americanisation” « chrissmithwriteshere - # "Doctor Who Movie Won't be Americanised", says Moffat | The Film Review # &8220;Doctor Who movie won&8217;t be Americanised&8221;, says Moffat # Head of Doctor Who, Steven Moffat took to Twitter to dispel worries the planned film adaptation of the hit BBC series, would be an Americanised version unfaithful to the source material. # nderstandably led to a mass panic among devoted &8216;Whovians&8217; who are concerned the film which is set to be a big Hollywood production will be Americanised and not do justice to the iconic British series. # perhaps a special case because she speaks in the accent of her homeland. To many, it sounds like pure American Pie . But could there also be an anti-Americanism at work in much of the US-focussed commentary? # starbucks, Ben & Jerry's, and Krispy Kreme; I believe that despite protestations by antiques to the contrary Australian politics is becoming more Americanised - and a good thing too. I am a democrat, and not a born-to-rule Imperialist like our traitorous Opposition Leader. I believe the Prime Minister of # 12. At 10:21pm on 07 Dec 2009 , Agent 00Soul wrote: Why is it that whenever an article is written about possible anti-Americanism, their accent is inevitably one of the first things mentioned? Sometimes I read or watch the BBC and it seems like they want one standard for American # fee you'd serve your mates in a student house, but at six bucks a cup and in a smokey room) but would never darken their doors here - not out of anti-Americanism but because, well, what would be the point? # ke Austalians without regard to observational generalizing stuff--let people be people. And she IS right wing, so dislike of her is not based on anti-Americanism--it is only *helped* by anti-Americanism--in my center/left bent thinking. # BBC News - Viewpoint: Why do some Americanisms irritate people? # Viewpoint: Why do some Americanisms irritate people? # British people are used to the stream of Americanisms entering the language. But some are worse than others, argues Matthew Engel. # Listen to Matthew Engel discuss &039;Americanisms&039; on Four Thought on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday 13 July at 2045 BST # The first class I call Americanisms, by which I understand an use of phrases or terms, or a construction of sentences, even among persons of rank and education, different from the use of # The word Americanism, which I have coined for the purpose, is exactly similar in its formation and signification to the word Scotticism. # CPS_PAGE_TITLE_URL_ENCODED=BBC+News+-+Viewpoint%3A+Why+do+some+Americanisms+irritate+people%3F # CPS_HEADLINE_SHORT_URL_ENCODED=Why+do+some+Americanisms+irritate+people%3F # magazine&app_version=6.2.45-RC4&first_pub=2011-07-13T10:41:51+00:00&last_editorial_update=2011-07-13T10:41:51+00:00&title=Why+do+some+Americanisms+irritate+people%3F&comments_box=false&cps_media_type=&cps_media_state=&app_type=web&ml_name=SSI&ml_version=0.14.4&language=# magazine&app_version=6.2.45-RC4&first_pub=2011-07-13T10:41:51+00:00&last_editorial_update=2011-07-13T10:41:51+00:00&title=Why+do+some+Americanisms+irritate+people%3F&comments_box=false&cps_media_type=&cps_media_state=&app_type=web&ml_name=SSI&ml_version=0.14.4&language=# ;app_version=6.2.45-RC4&first_pub=2011-07-13T10:41:51+00:00&last_editorial_update=2011-07-13T10:41:51+00:00&title=Why+do+some+Americanisms+irritate+people%3F&comments_box=false&cps_media_type=&cps_media_state=&app_type=web&ml_name=SSI&# There&039;s been much debate on these pages in recent days about the spread of Americanisms - outside the US. Here, American lexicographer and broadcaster Grant Barrett offers a riposte. # n British English, he restarted a debate about the changing nature of language which ended in dozens of suggestions from readers of their own loathed Americanisms. # If people submitting Americanisms had done this, they would have found that in some cases the terms they warned against predated Americans and American influence. In others the history # Why do some Americanisms irritate people? # 50 of your noted Americanisms # lled bash for the little dahlings. Or you find your letterbox is stuffed with some council-sponsored holiday programmes ... Even worse is the growing Americanisation of what used to be a sweet little pagan holiday. Shiny faced kids in professionally made Spiderman costumes now come to your door demanding 'Trick or # Americanisms swamping English, so wake up and smell the coffee | Mail Online # Say no to the get-go! Americanisms swamping English, so wake up and smell the coffee # It's an ugly Americanism, meaning 'from the start' or 'from the off'. # certainly unwinnable but I am convinced there are millions of intelligent Britons out there who wince as often as I do every time they hear a witless Americanism introduced into British discourse. Stand up and say you care. Feel free to write with your favourite horrors. Come out of the closet. Or better still, # the cupboard. Matthew Engel is a columnist on the Financial Times. Send your pet hate Americanisms to englishincrisis@gmail.com. # I visit the USA a lot. I also have American family members, so I am used to hearing many of these words and phrases. Here is my list of Americanisms, some of which are creeping in over here # We are fast becoming the 51st state of the union. It's not only the Americanisation of the English language but most of our traditions. Penny-for-the-guy is now trick-or-treat. Kids now go to proms and we have vacations instead of # 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 # to give them (movie bosses) control over the rest of the story' by selling off the rights to characters, could have been well-founded if the plans to Americanise the film adaption had gone ahead. # Gome feud stirs ‘Americanisation’ fears - FT.com # Gome feud stirs ‘Americanisation’ fears # British Library's Map Your Voice scheme records 10,000 English speakers and finds 'Americanisation' of speech may be a myth # major deal.' Why all the hullaballoo over something only marginally less dull than ditchwater? Well, the year is 2003, and what sociologists call the Americanisation of the globe has spread to the European telecommunications sector. In this scenario there are few European players, never mind UK ones, left. A # European operator has been able to defeat American competition becomes a headline-grabbing event. It is only a scenario, but it is a likely one. The Americanisation of this European market has been happening for years. Last week, when Global Crossing acquired Racal's telecoms business for &163;1 billion, what had # The Americanisation of French politics is now obvious, from live televised debates to the invasion of candidates' private lives. # Everything in France points to the Americanisation of French politics; from televised debates between aspiring candidates in the run-up to the presidential elections, to the evolution of the primary # hilosopher Bernard Henry Levy, who, for his latest book American vertigo , endeavoured to retrace Tocqueville's steps in America. Over the years, the Americanisation of French politics has taken many shapes. There was a time when the French knew nothing of their politicians' private lives and most of them preferred # the pin-up of celebrity magazines which featured pictures of her in a turquoise bikini . Her impeccable figure, at the age of 53, was a godsend. The Americanisation of French politics doesn't, however, come only through the bedroom's keyhole or stolen holiday snapshots. In an attempt to emulate the primary system # attacks currently broadcast on American national networks for the US midterm elections. These are still forbidden in France. And despite the rampant Americanisation of French politics, it is indeed difficult to envisage in France what a Republican group just did in New York, accusing Democrat candidate Michael # pport of Israel at the top of a list of actions that ends with almost everything George Bush has said or done. But Bush, to me, is an enabler of anti-Americanism, not a creator. This creed is not reactive, it is visceral. Why else would English friends with impeccable anti-racist credentials ask about our # children (who grew up in the US) "How will you get rid of their accents." Well, why would we want to? It is a historical fact that anti-Americanism predates the US. It was not invented in reaction to the Monroe Doctrine or the use of marines to pacify Latin America or McDonald's or Hollywood or # luck," he chuckled. It is, of course, perfectly reasonable to disagree with Bolton. It's perverse to argue - as some US commentators have - that anti-Americanism is always illegitimate. After all, plenty of Americans dislike Bolton with the same passion. It is also possible to exaggerate the extent of anti-# Americanism. Living in the US for the past five years, I assumed the rest of the world was seething with passionate resentment at the way it's been treated. But # ers created it and we ought to nurture it, not tear it down. &183; Justin Webb is BBC Radio's chief Washington correspondent; Death to America - Anti-Americanism Examined is on Radio 4 next Monday at 8pm justin.webb@bbc.co.uk # The media interest in the tax affairs of Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone is part of the Americanisation of British politics # y had a look in. Ken only has himself to blame for his difficulties. But the success of the campaign against him is just one more step in the gradual Americanisation of British politics. And with public tax returns and televised debates imported, it surely can't be long before the requests for politicians' medical # Warning over 'Americanisation' of UK universities | Education | Education Guardian # Warning over 'Americanisation' of UK universities # The government must hold a debate on the future of higher education in the UK before it moves any further towards an Americanised elitist system, the House of Lords has heard. Addressing the National Conference of University Professors in the House of Lords last night, Lady # Warning over 'Americanisation' of UK universities # Puttnam warns of creeping Americanisation in UK TV | Media | MediaGuardian # Puttnam warns of creeping Americanisation in UK TV # Selling off Channel 5 or ITV to a US company would lead to the creeping Americanisation of TV schedules, Lord Puttnam's influential parliamentary committee warned today as it outlined explicit reasons for opposing government plans to # Puttnam warns of creeping Americanisation in UK TV # for the impartiality of broadcast news in Britain as against the "unquestioning" attitude of US networks, and warned the government not to allow the "Americanisation" of the British media. In characteristically blunt fashion, Mr Dyke said he was surprised at the "committed political position" of Rupert Murdoch's # s. He urged the government to think carefully about its proposals to liberalise media ownership laws in Britain. "We must ensure that we don't become Americanised," he said in a speech at Goldsmith's College in London yesterday. Mr Dyke directed much of his ammunition against the global media giant Clear Channel,# While most people accept that language will change with use and time, Sarah Churchwell appears to justify the increasing Americanisation of British English ( A neologism thang, innit , 10 May). Noah Webster may have produced the language that should be known as "American", but that # r. What now? Even if we can accept the expertise Americans bring to areas such as fundraising, and the diversity of the international arts scene, the Americanisation of other areas can cause the hackles of the British bulldog to rise. The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England - which sets our mortgage # rates - includes a US economist, DeAnne Julius. She insists the trend we are seeing is less Americanisation, more internationalisation. 'There has been a globalisation of human capability. There are more Americans and more people of other nationalities too,' # Michael Kaiser's appointment as head of the Royal opera House is only one of many US inroads into the British culture. Dictionaries contain ever more Americanisations, and even the Last Night of the Proms is now to be led by an American. &149; The strong points of British culture are rapidly falling to the # e human potential movement'. 'Let it out!' was what you now did with your angst. Nervous breakdowns were a thing of the past, while inflation and the Americanisation of the working culture, with its short-term contracts and insecurity of tenure, were rapidly becoming a thing of the present. Then Thatcher's reign # The rise of the internet is threatening to Americanise the English language. Widespread use of the world wide web is leading to more and more Britons substituting "center" for centre, "program" for # Our lives are becoming hopelessly Americanised says professor # unding father of comprehensive education and now emeritus fellow of Nuffield college, Oxford, told the Guardian that Britain was becoming "hopelessly Americanised" in everything from the decline of the high street to fixation with the individual and the free market. "It seems to me that we have lost the old form # Salman Rushdie: Anti-Americanism takes the world by storm | World news | The Guardian # Anti-Americanism has taken the world by storm # he reason is that America finds itself facing an ideological enemy that may turn out to be harder to defeat than militant Islam: that is to say, anti-Americanism, which is presently taking the world by storm. The good news is that these post-Taliban days are bad times for Islamist fanatics. Dead or alive, Bin # cs' propaganda more comprehensively than an acceptable settlement in the Middle East. However, even if that settlement were arrived at tomorrow, anti-Americanism would probably not abate. It has become too useful a smokescreen for Muslim nations' many defects - their corruption, their incompetence, their # have been struck, even shocked, by the depth of anti-American feeling among large segments of the population, as well as the news media. Western anti-Americanism is an altogether more petulant phenomenon than its Islamic counterpart, and, oddly, far more personalised. Muslim countries don't like America's power,# Salman Rushdie: Anti-Americanism takes the world by storm # Americanisation or Globalisation? | History Today # Americanisation or Globalisation? # pective of a self-satisfied little island at the heart of a great empire: ‘But it is not clear whether what has replaced it is Europeanisation, Americanisation or just globalisation.’ Quite so. A leading political philosopher, John Gray, has attacked Labour’s commitment to the United States as &# Tax Returns And The Americanisation Of British Politics # Tax Returns And The Americanisation Of British Politics # The snap agreement by the four leading candidates to be London mayor to publish how much they pay in tax points to the increasing Americanisation of British politics. # The snap agreement by the four leading candidates to be London mayor to publish how much they pay in tax points to the increasing Americanisation of British politics. # The snap agreement by the four leading candidates to be London mayor to publish how much they pay in tax points to the increasing Americanisation of British politics. # Is TV becoming Americanised? | Metro News # Is TV becoming Americanised? # A WARNING THAT TV could become Americanised came from the BBC&8217;s directorgeneral as he picked up an International Emmy award. # t&8217;s about replacing distinctive domestic programmes with international formats and US content. In the world of broadcasting, globalisation means Americanisation,&8217; he said. # Rioters denounce &8216;Americanisation&8217; of British way of rioting | NewsBiscuit # Rioters denounce &8216;Americanisation&8217; of British way of rioting # hat they see as an unwelcome transatlantic influence on the traditional English way of looting and causing affray. &8216;It&8217;s another deplorable Americanisation of our traditional British way of doing stuff &8211; especially free stuff,&8217; says fourteen-year-old Tottenham rioter Zac (two Sony flat screens # The Americanisation of Turkey | openDemocracy # The Americanisation of Turkey # Europe’s evident failure to accomplish its transformative mission means that Turkish politics is coming under the sway, not of Europeanisation but of Americanisation. # But the connection runs much deeper than the convergence of strategic interests at a critical juncture - for Turkey is also Americanising domestically. # P have embraced the fusion of market-friendly (or neo-liberal) economics and God once popularised by Turgut Özal, perhaps Turkey’s most distinguished Americaniser. Some critics would argue that the religious worldview shared by the AKP and the Gülenists dismisses social rights and redistribution and sees welfare # But if Turkey is embracing Americanisation rather than Europeanisation, could this process provide a (better) answer to Turkey's burning questions of citizenship and national identity? Again, # So there are also obstacles to Turkey's Americanisation. Turkey’s new establishment has very few knee-jerk Americanophiles (similar to the old secular one, whose attitude to the US was highly instrumental). # Turkey's public opinion has traditionally been, as elsewhere in southern Europe, a hotbed of anti-Americanism. The German Marshall Fund’s "transatlantic trends" poll in 2011 finds out that 62% of Turks hold negative views of the US, the highest percentage of # all countries surveyed. There is no causal relationship between Turkey’s internal Americanisation and the country’s behaviour vis-à-vis the US, which is essentially a balancing act between the pursuit of security in a turbulent environment and the # Say &039;no&039; to a Senate, the Americanisation of the UK has gone far enough, an OK competition | openDemocracy # Say &039;no&039; to a Senate, the Americanisation of the UK has gone far enough, an OK competition # The British Election Debates, the Lib Dem Surge and the Americanisation of Our Politics | openDemocracy # The British Election Debates, the Lib Dem Surge and the Americanisation of Our Politics # roup reveal that they are a snapshot of a more marginal, disconnected Britain: more poor, young and black, less educated and politically engaged. The Americanisation of British Politics: Living in a Fantasy, Liberal World The kind of country the UK is geo-politically; whether it is a ‘normal’ European country or an # arties don’t want to go near. Labour and the Tories both clearly want us to be the latter, and prevent us discussing the potential of the former. The Americanisation of British politics can be illustrated in how our political and media elites see much of the public life of our nation, a good example of which is the # How the British Christians are being Americanised | Christian Institute | Christian Right | Anti-gay | www.polarimagazine.com # You are here: Polari Magazine / Heroes & Villains / Villains: How British Christians are being Americanised # Villains: How British Christians are being Americanised # THERE&8217;S a long history of the guardians of the English language battling bravely against creeping Americanisms, but the reality is that it&8217;s a two-way process, writes Stephen McGinty # kes it a convenient stand-in for the average American city, but figure this would only delay chastisement for a linguistic dalliance with my current “Americanism” of choice. For I’m shamed to admit that I have an unconscious habit of referring to the police by an American slang. Still, it is preferable to # ry against England, but the promise of an international (baseball) cap floated away with the mound when the game was rained off. I don’t mind certain Americanisms, those words and phrases that wheedle their way into everyday usage such as “talented” and “reliable”. You weren’t aware that both words originally # protect the English language, with one writing in 1857 to describe the new American word “reliable” as vile. It was a Scot who first coined the term “Americanism”. John Witherspoon, the president of Princeton College, first used it in an article published in the Pennsylvania Journal, in which he wrote: “The # first class I call Americanisms, by which I understand a use of phrases or terms, or a construction of sentences, even among persons of rank and education, different from the use of # the same terms or phrases or construction of similar sentences in Great Britain. The word Americanism, which I have coined for the purpose, is exactly similar in its formation and signification to the word Scotticism.” When the Founding Fathers set # e marshalled forces of the American English began to lay siege to our nation during our darkest hour. When movies (yes, that could be described as an Americanism, but is also, I would argue, accurate when used to describe an American film) developed sound and recorded dialogue in the 1930s American words and # dreds of thousands of American GIs descended into English towns and villages the frottage between words was heated. There are those who cannot stand “Americanisms”. A few years ago the BBC encouraged listeners to write in with their foulest examples which included “bi-weekly” instead of fortnightly (surely bi-# ous with “children” or “toddlers”? And, please, can anyone who uses it go immediately to the “naughty step”.) Yet if I have a current pet hate among “Americanisms” it is the phrase “reaching out”. I recently sent an e-mail to a company in Los Angeles who said they could not be of assistance but thanked me for “# y own ignorance but bravely “reaching out” as if towards the security of a branch or vine. I accept, however, that there is nothing to be done about “Americanisms” other than to make a personal choice about which ones, if any, you are prepared to admit into your everyday vocabulary. Personally, I’m happy to take # BBC criticised for creeping ‘Americanisms’ - Telegraph # BBC criticised for creeping ‘Americanisms’ # The BBC has been criticised for an increased use of ‘Americanisms’ and slang # this was the latest example of an Americanism creeping into accepted use by # people and not indulging any slopping Americanised slang.” # A list of Americanisms that have annoyed BBC listeners: # * The Americanisation of dates - July the fifth is now 'July fifth' or January # The spooky celebration, at Scone Palace, Perthshire, is being organised by Scottish firm Herald Events as a riposte to the Americanisation of the traditional autumn festival, based on the ancient Celtic ritual of Samhain and co-opted by the Church. # British anti-Americanism 'based on misconceptions' - Telegraph # British anti-Americanism 'based on misconceptions' # against anti-Americanism. # Martin Keown on Arsenal&8217;s Americanisation: Arsene Wenger will make key signings | Arsenal Blog & Arsenal News # Martin Keown on Arsenal&8217;s Americanisation: Arsene Wenger will make key signings # Winners in PI&039;s &039;Americanisation&039; | Opinion | The Lawyer # Winners in PI&039;s &039;Americanisation&039; # victims&039; names for £1 a time&044; which sparked apoplectic attacks in the heavyweight press about &039;ambulance chasing&039; lawyers &039;Americanising&039; personal injury litigation&044; raises serious issues: how is an accident victim expected to find a competent lawyer? Are personal injury lawyers # r cent of them are due to failure on the part of the employer&044; yet only a very small proportion result in successful compensation awards. If &039;Americanisation&039; means tacky advertising or raising the expectations of clients with hopeless and unmeritorious claims&044; then I do not support it. If&044; # to become more aware of their rights&044; and accident victims are willing to take action to enforce those rights&044; then I am all for it. If &039;Americanisation&039; means developing access to justice through easier procedures&044; wider funding options and more skilled practitioners&044; then I am all for # d of damages to a child road accident victim&044; for example&044; can fully appreciate the impact of the accident on that victim&039;s life. If &039;Americanisation&039; means these real benefits&044; and I believe it does&044; we need to look at just who are the winners and losers. The real winners are the # Times Higher Education - Stoker experts bite back against Twilight and ‘Americanised’ teen vampires # Stoker experts bite back against Twilight and ‘Americanised’ teen vampires # he Gothic. We need to stop using Freud and go back to de Sade – it’s all about perversity and the will to power.” Professor Bloom also regretted “the Americanisation of the vampire” to be found, for example, in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight books, where “the dangerous violent aristocrat has become the dark boy no one # It is not fair to call twilight's effect as "Americanization." Many Americans hate twilight, mainly because it is terribly written and romanticises abusive relationships. Feel free to say the Stephanie # 1. Globalisation or Americanisation - Seven key factors driving longer-term growth - The Advertising & Marketing Services Industry by Sir Martin Sorrell - What we think - WPP Annual # 1. Globalisation or Americanisation # we think | The Advertising & Marketing Services Industry by Sir Martin Sorrell | Seven key factors driving longer-term growth | Globalisation or Americanisation # Globalisation or Americanisation # What has been going on may well not be the globalisation of world markets, but their Americanisation. Not in the sense that upsets the French or the Germans and results in the banning of Americanisms from French commercial language – an # int, it seems that China and India will take that role, in the context of the growth of Asia Pacific. In fact, we may now be witnessing a change from Americanisation to globalisation. In Davos, at the World Economic Forum, over the last few years, the Chinese and Indians exhibited a larger degree of self-reliance # With anti-Americanism creeping back to the forefront of political rhetoric in Moscow, many in Russia slyly smiled when Romney this year called Russia "our No 1 geopolitical #