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- noun Plural form of
Americanism .
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Examples
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He tries very hard not to be parochial (is it fair to ask that a book written in Britain should label "Briticisms" as well as Americanisms? would you expect an American author to label Americanisms?) and if he sometimes fails to be omniscient, let us hope that American (and other) readers will be tempted to help.
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: Some So-called Americanisms, All the Year Round, vol. 1xxvi, p. 38.
Bibliography. 1. General Henry Louis 1921
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This "Americanism" is really an old English phrase, as many more so-called Americanisms also are.
Mistress Margery Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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Dictionary of Americanisms, which is strictly confined to terms that originated in the United States, omitting items surviving in the United States after having become obsolete in Britain.
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"The influence of science and technology" ( "[I] nput has become an overworked vogue word ... [as has] user-friendly ...."), "The influences of other varieties of English" (in which one can find good examples of so-called Americanisms that were formerly British).
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Baer's writing, however, comes across as solidly centred, and the few 'Americanisms' that do creep in can be ignored in favour of the general flavour of the work, with one of his first solutions, an unnumbered one, being that "We [the U.S.] just have to overcome our prejudices rooted in the past."
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The interesting thing is that a lot of English slang went over to America, and then died out in England, only to be brought back fifty or so years later -- hence you get lots of moaning over here when some "Americanisms" come back where they came from in the first place!
Debut Showcase: The Inferior Tia Nevitt 2008
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They give lip service in their speeches in support of common 'Americanisms' like, "All men are created equal" and "No man is above the law", but they don't believe it.
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"Americanisms" are no more than the survival of the early English form.
Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray
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Creole French is founded largely upon the French of the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, just as many of the so-called "Americanisms" of older parts of the country, including
American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913
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