May 29, 2012

UNSTOPPABLE RISE OF AMERICAN ENGLISH




UNSTOPPABLE RISE OF AMERICAN ENGLISH

Study shows young Britons copying US writing style

The future of written English will owe more to Hollywood films than Dickens or Shakespeare, if the findings of a study into children’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 American words such as garbage, trash can, sidewalk, candy, sneakers, soda, cranky and flashlight.

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