A few days ago I opened this blog by posting about the ever-increasing use of American terms ahead of English ones.
Here is an example of what I am talking about - the Scarborough Evening News carries a short report entitled "Santa's in the 'hood". Now "'hood" is the American ghetto slang for "neighbourhood" and the Scarborough Evening News are reminded that we are in Britain not the LA ghettoes!
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I agree with you. Recently the male presenter of the BBC's breakfast show said "she was sat over there", I couldn't believe my ears.
Other annoying words and phrases are: train station (railway station), snuck (sneaked), for free ("for nothing", "free of charge" or simply "free") and math (maths).
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