Topic: The U.S. vs the UK

Are You an Anglocreep?

Flickr/Graeme Pow

Why are so many American writers using expressions like bumbling toff, fortnight, and lovely piece of kit—why, possibly worse, are words like crikey, loo, cheersbrilliant, flat, twee, ginger, whinge, sot, rubbish, and so on "Anglocreeping" their way through our country's vernacular?

By Eli Rosenberg

Apr 26, 2011

Chart of the Day

The U.S. Has Double the Royal Wedding Coverage as the U.K.

A Nielsen study finds an American media stocked full of Prince William and Kate Middleton

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