Notoneoffbritishisms

As of now, two friends have forwarded me the New Yorker's recent article about American adoption of British soccer/football terminology-especially treating teams as plural, such as "England have advanced to the semifinals"-with messages along the lines of

names with two parts often start out with the accent on the second one, and over time, as the name becomes culturally well-established, the accent shifts to the first one. In a 1955 episode of the sitcom "Make Room for Daddy," the characters pronounce "Li

Zach Helfand writes about this summer's soccer tournament, which has demonstrated the dominance of Britishisms in soccer coverage.

Sometimes a NOOB just slips right by me. That was the case with the word at the top of his post. I had definitely encountered it as an adjective meaning characterized by shouting, but didn't think of it as notably British, rather one of a group of relativ

Thanks to everybody who entered the competition to win a signed copy of my book Gobsmacked! by suggesting future NOOBs entries. I had said there'd be one winner, but two people sent in words or phrases I intend to write about, so I will mail each of them

I see that only once in the history of Not One-Off Britishisms have I addressed the expression "to move house," which is the British equivalent of what Americans mean when they say, "to move." It was back in 2011, the first year of the blog, and I recount

Some time ago, I was reading an American friend's Facebook post. He was remembering when, decades back, "I was at my folks' apartment and put on the album Blonde on Blonde. My father said, 'Take off that garbage.' I stared at him, utterly stonkered." For

It won't surprise you to learn that I keep a file of Britishisms I encounter here in the U.S.A. Some of these make it into blogposts, but others stay in the file, because I don't find any more of them. At this point, I think it's time to give up hope of t

My friend Michael Regan, a Bloomberg journalist, sent me a link to a Bloomberg article Mike commented: "Gazump: Fun new Britishism making the rounds on Wall Street." I didn't know from "gazump" so immediately looked it up. The OED's main definition is "sw

Mike commented: Gazump: Fun new Britishism making the rounds on Wall Street. I didnt know from gazump so immediately looked it up. The OED s main definition is swindle and its first cite is from the Daily Express in 1928: 'Gazoomphing the sarker' is a met