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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