by kitchenwonder » Thu Dec 29, 2016 8:34 am
I just read this interesting article. Christopher Foyle has some responsibility for this, I am sure.
Britishisms and the Britishisation of American English
By Cordelia Hebblethwaite
BBC News, Washington DC
27 September 2012
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19670686
"Well...The Foyles, you know, always have been hard to resist." (Enemy Fire S3E2)
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