ENGLISH in AMERICA
AMERICAN WORDS WHICH
ENRICHED ENGLISH
(I obviously need to extend this section.
Can you recommend or amend any words here - Thanks)
AMERICAN NEOLOGISMS and COINED EXPRESSIONS
AMERICAN NEOLOGISMS
These are words newly coined in the
USA:
 | advocate |
| airplane (aero plane) |
| baby-sitter |
| bedrock |
| beeline |
| bread / dough (for money) |
| bunkum (nonsense speeches by Senator from Buncombe County, North Carolina + to debunk) |
| butt in |
| cold spell |
| currency |
| fudge |
| gimmick |
| grapevine |
| hangover |
| hassle |
| hindsight |
| hold up |
| hooker |
| jazz |
| jive |
| joyride |
| lengthy |
| lynch - Berlitz p175 |
| to park |
| phoney |
| movies (pictures) |
| publicity |
| notify |
| radio |
| raincoat |
| rock n' roll |
| roundabout |
| sidetrack |
| 'stiff upper lip' |
| teenager |
| telephone |
| truck (lorry) |
| typewriter |
| zilch |
| O.K. |
America's single greatest gift to international language = it acts as a noun,
adjective, verb, etc.
Several theories about its origin - O K (Old Kinderhook) Democrat's Club ("Oll
Korrect"); various theories...Add later BB157/8
Being impossible to translate, O.K. has entered other languages in its original
form.
AMERICAN EXPRESSIONS
| aim to (instead of 'at') |
| broad flew the coop (my wife has just left home) |
| doing something on a shoestring |
| the first time in (for) years |
| live wire |
| megabuck salary |
| raw deal |
| step on the gas |
| taking a |
| you look like a million bucks (all green and crinkly) |
| the 64,000 dollar question = the last and most difficult question to answer - from a quiz game? |
| ball park figure |
| zero tolerance |
| Many colloquial / vernacular words such as: |
| boom |
| crank |
| crook |
| hunch (premonition/intuition) |
| pep |
| slump |
| stunt |
| wire (telegram), |