[Corpora-List] Just for fun - collecting a small lexicon of favorite not-yet-exported Americanisms

[Graham White]

Not an Americanism, but I had a non-native-English-speaking student who
came up with the
word "onlinely". Which I think is a lovely word, and deserves to be used
more widely than it is. 

Graham

On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 17:05 -0400, Dominic Widdows wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> 
> This is a frivolous side project mainly for people with experience of
> English on both sides of the Atlantic. Please contribute your favorite
> words and phrases that are peculiar to North American English in
> comments
> at http://puttypeg.blogspot.com/2011/07/please-contribute-your-favourite.html
> 
> 
> Backstory: as many of you will know, the BBC recently published a
> user-contributed list of "most hated Americanisms". Not impressded:
> it's ignorant, bigoted and prescriptivist (at least one of which is a
> heinous misdemeanor on the corpora list!) The Economist has already
> published a good debunking. Still, better than moaning, I thought it
> would be much more fun to get together a list of those words and
> phrases that North America enjoys and Britain still lacks - hence the
> link above.
> 
> 
> Please add your favorite North American words if you can think of any,
> and if we get enough good ones perhaps it'll be worth posting them to
> Auntie back in Blighty!
> Best wishes,
> Dominic
> 
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