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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
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That was a good list. I have to agree that some of those Americanisms annoy me too! I also think some of them likely are regional expressions rather than typical of all Americans. I found it interesting that several of the items on the list like "to deplane" and "to medal" are similar to someone's comment about "gifting" earlier. I had never noticed our tendency to turn nouns into verbs before.
Linking #29 on the list back to the date/time discussion, yesterday I was told that meetings would be scheduled "fortnightly and antiphase". An American would say we plan to schedule alternating, biweekly meetings. It actually surprises me how many Americans don't know the word "fortnight". For some reason when I hear fortnight it reminds me of reading Shakespeare in high school.