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Britspeak is crossing the Atlantic

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While the US has given us words like ‘alternate,’ ‘gotten,’ and ‘guys,’ we’ve given them words like ‘ginger,’ ‘sell-by-date,’ and ‘gormless’. Cordelia Hebblethwaite reports on the Britishisms that are creeping into American English in this BBC article.