‘Would like to think whoever wrote this about Americanisms was filled with rage and did it in one sitting’
Here’s the BBC’s styleguide on Americanisms, and how not to use them.
I like to think whoever wrote the BBC styleguide entry on Americanisms did it in one sitting, filled with rage pic.twitter.com/5JFMmJE0tS
— Dave Lee (@DaveLeeBBG) October 25, 2017
Turns out they missed a few.
May I add: Queue (not line), surname (not last name) and city (not siddy)
— Dave Lee (@DaveLeeBBC) October 25, 2017
Not to mention ‘impact on’ not ‘impact’ and ‘comprise’ not ‘comprise of’ except when adjective ‘comprised’
— Linda Semple 🇪🇺 (@LindaFSemple) October 25, 2017
They should’ve added ‘gotten’ too – hideous word.
— Nicola 🍂 (@craftybookworm) October 25, 2017
Except…
'Gotten' comes from middle English geten, and is most definitely not an Americanism – it survived there after dying out in England
— Jonathan Sutton (@jonathanisutton) October 25, 2017
Americans knock on wood, we touch wood. We have green fingers, they have a green thumb.
— Ben Fell (@benjaminbunny) October 25, 2017
Americans could care less. We couldn't care less.
— Paul Weaver (@UKWeaver) October 25, 2017
Wait are rocks and stones the same things?!
— Chris Mandle (@chris_mandle) October 25, 2017
Throwing a rock pic.twitter.com/Bu4JKHlDG1
— Paul Weaver (@UKWeaver) October 25, 2017
That's a boulder, not a rock. Boulder > rock > stone
But yes, there is a difference!
— Madeline Marsanne (@MadelineOnMars) October 25, 2017
Got it?