American 'English'

We might want to remember that many of the greatest writers in English of the past century have been Americans: a random selection - Hemingway, Steinbeck, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Saul Bellow. I could go on, but I won't. Promise!

According to Americans I live near Loogabarooga or Lowbrow (didn't we just have a thread on that? )

What a rich vein you've tapped on that blog Annobel. I'll visit that site again

There's quite an entertaining blog on the subject of this quotation.

everythingyouknowaboutenglishiswrong.com/blog1/category/churchill/

The blogger comes to the conclusion that it was probably Shaw who said something of the sort.

I think so! Its all the horrible jargon they have introduced us to - the management speak rubbish like 'keep me in the loop' when you could just say 'can you keep me informed'? I could go on and bloody on but won't. Well I might.

Was it Oscar Wilde who said the English and the Americans were divided by a common language

Power outage makes me fume

Americans fracture other languages, too! I bristle with irritation, but am also amused, at the way they pronounce words like 'filet mignon' as 'ferLAY mernYON' and 'creme anglaise' as 'cream onglay' in their food programmes.

I heard a lovely 'WorceSEStershy-are' sauce being recommended to enhance the flavour in a 'mac'n'cheese the other day.

Shouldn't this be in Pedants' Corner? I'm sure we have had threads similar to this there.

Looking forward to the comments on this thread

Yes horrible. I also dislike the way they verb nouns ' I gifted him' and as for de-planed for disembarked or even got off!