American trend fear; YourSay.FOLLOWING on from Richard Reeves' excellent letter (September 14), there is a worrying trend of many more American or Americanised words creeping creeping 1. gradual progression of a lesion or tissue growth. 2. prostrate growth pattern of a plant, e.g. c. buttercup (Ranunculus repens), c. caustic (Euphorbia drummondii), c. charlie (Glechoma hederacea), c. in to our daily conversation and the worst culprits are the media. In addition to the misspelled words such as license, defense, and center, we have now gotten used to calling our gardens yards, our cash machines ATMs, the cashiers are Tellers, and property is now Real Estate. It isn't just the American influences either. We measure our longer distances in miles but most English made TV programmes describe distances in kilometres. Maybe this is because they sell their programmes to other countries and if so I can understand it perhaps, but why on earth did a traffic report yesterday on Radio WM say that due to a road accident there was a two kilometre queue Pronounced "Q." A temporary holding place for data. See queuing, message queue and print queue. (programming) queue - A first-in first-out data structure used to sequence objects. Objects are added to the tail of the queue ("enqueued") and taken off the head ("dequeued"). of traffic? Unbelievable! Neil Barnett, Sutton Coldfield Sutton Coldfield, city (1991 pop. 102,572), Birmingham metropolitan district, central England. The city is a residential suburb of Birmingham with a metal products industry and a large television transmitting station. |
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