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Erin Moore
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That's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms, and What Our English Says About Us
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I now pronounce you... A local.
Last weekend, this showed up on my Facebook feed and I can't resist sharing... In this episode ofAnglophenia ("British culture with an American accent"), hostSiobhan Thompsonasks US citizen and fellow YouTube star Rusty Ward of Science Friction to pronounce some British place names, and hilarity ensues. I love this because it reminds me of every time I've ever landed somewhere new and had to learn
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“E. B. White explained it well: To foreigners, a Yankee is an American. To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner. To Northerners, a Yankee is a New Englander. To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter. And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.”
― That's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms, and What Our English Says About Us
― That's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms, and What Our English Says About Us
“Americans are sociable and approval-seeking. They look for common ground with others and genuinely want to connect.”
― That's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms, and What Our English Says About Us
― That's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms, and What Our English Says About Us
“The Americans have been obliged to invent a new verb for which we have no use over here—‘to enthuse.’ Why don’t we enthuse? And why, if we do conjugate this verb in secret, are we so afraid to let it be known? . . . We fear terribly to encourage ourselves or others. The people over there are not afraid. They let themselves go individually and independently over what they like or admire, and pour forth torrents of generous praise which we should shrink from voicing unless we were quite sure that everybody else agreed with us, or unless the object of our admiration had been a long time dead.” The English may detect a note of condescension here, but an American won’t.”
― That's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms, and What Our English Says About Us
― That's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms, and What Our English Says About Us
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