Americanisms!
Amazing! Trash! Awesome! These are just a few of the slang words I hear thrown about by my fellow teenagers. Most of us can’t go a day without using slang, much to the disgust of the adults – but did you know most common slang words are actually Americanisms? For some reason, the older generation get a bit hot under the collar when hearing British people use Americanisms, such as ‘take-out’ instead of ‘takeaway’. But they don’t seem to realise how useful Americanisms can be! Take spelling, for example. American words are spelled simpler than British words – for example ‘color’ instead of ‘colour’. If we all spelt words this way, it’d be much easier to teach children, and easier for people to learn the language. And who doesn’t want to have their life made easier by not having to overthink spelling? Another reason, to my knowledge, for the hate of Americanisms is that the old people think it ‘ruins’ the original language. If that’s the case, then why did William Shakespeare, t...
