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 / phony /movies (pictures) / publicity / notify / radio / raincoat / rock n' roll / roundabout / sidetrack / 'stiff upper lip' / teenager / telephone / truck (lorry) / typewriter / zilch / |
O.K. Is 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.
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), |