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Mind your language

Americanisms

7 January 2017

9:00 AM

7 January 2017

9:00 AM

Here are eight invasive Americanisms to continue annoying us in 2017.

Running for office. Liz Kendall was ‘running for the party leadership last year’, the Times said. In Britain she should have been standing.

Standing in line. A mother was ‘standing in line at the Post Office to collect her benefits’, said the Daily Mail.

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