Americanisms
Very often, British people tend to get their “knickers in a twist” over ‘Americanisms’, the use of so called American words in British English. But is it really all that harmful? The answer, quite simply, is probably not. In fact, these Americanisms have positive impacts on our language more often than not in all honesty. They offer more expressive and interesting phrases to the table making our language more vibrant. They appear socially useful as well. For example, the term ‘guy’ is used as a gender neutral term and greeting. In today’s society this becomes even more useful. In truth, many of these so called Americanisms aren't even American and are indeed closer to traditional English than the British alternative. One of the ones that make most Brits infuriated, trash, is actually found in Shakespeare’s plays, which means it is closer to the language we used 400 years ago than our alternative ‘rubbish’. So why do people grow so angry over them, when it isn’...