nprfreshair: Linguist Geoff Nunberg on the Britishisms entering our American-English: Adding a foreign word to your vocabulary is like adding foreign attire to your wardrobe. Sometimes you do it because it’s practical and sometimes just because you think it looks cool. (Photo credit: Zdenek Ryzner/iStockphoto.com) :D  This continues to make me happy. 

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Linguist Geoff Nunberg on the Britishisms entering our American-English:

Adding a foreign word to your vocabulary is like adding foreign attire to your wardrobe. Sometimes you do it because it’s practical and sometimes just because you think it looks cool.

(Photo credit: Zdenek Ryzner/iStockphoto.com)

:D 

This continues to make me happy. 

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    I wonder if ‘hella’ will ever bubble up in British-English ;)
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    spot on
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    Since moving to the UKe, particularly I think because I’m in the East Midlands, I’ve had to pic up a lot of Britishisms....
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  22. dwarvesandtheirblogger said: My problem exactly.
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