People from the corporate world and higher education sectors are increasingly adopting each other’s speech patterns to be more socially inclusive, according to new research published today by ...

Young British children are more likely than their big siblings to adopt American phrases, a new survey of teachers in the U.K. has found. More than 50% of the teachers at elementary level schools who ...

Charlotte Cripps’s column on her daughter’s growing “Americanese” – from saying “elevator” to “candy” – sparked a lively debate among Independent readers about the spread of Americanisms in British ...

Gobsmacked! The British Invasion of American English. By Ben Yagoda. Princeton University Press; 288 pages; $24.95 and £20 British intellectuals enjoy bewailing the influx of Americanisms into the ...