The Magazine's recent article about the Britishisation of American English prompted readers to respond with examples of their own - here are 30 British words and phrases that you've noticed being used in the US and Canada.

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The Maricopa County Elections Department mistakenly listed the wrong date of the upcoming general election on an official government document.

The error appears on a document containing a voter ID card.

In addition to the ID card, the piece of paper it comes in lists other information such as important election dates.

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After a campaign by BiNet USA and bisexuals worldwide, Google has removed “bisexual” from its list of banned words.

BiNet USA is pleased to confirm that Google Inc. has unblocked the term “bisexual” from its search algorithm. Now that “bisexual” is allowed, terms such as “ bisexual quotes”, “bisexual rights”, and “bisexual parenting” are ( Read more... )

The Google Endangered Languages Project website, which launched Thursday and coincided with National Aboriginal Day, invites language experts from around the world to post videos, audio clips, books and other publications to catalogue endangered or extinct languages.

It was created by a committee of international language experts called the ( Read more... )

A political debate over whether to enshrine Russian as an official language in much of Ukraine brought lawmakers to fisticuffs this week, playing on enduring divisions in the country over cultural identity.

The scuffle, caught on tape Thursday, was followed Friday by lawmakers blocking the podium to prevent the start of a parliament session. ( Read more... )

Okinawans push to preserve unique languageByron Fija, 42, has an identity crisis ( Read more... )

Rick Santorum Walks Back Puerto Rico Remarks
By KASIE HUNT 03/15/12 04:22 PM ET

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Rick Santorum came to Puerto Rico and promptly waded into the emotional debate over the role English should play in the island's future, sparking a furor that led the former Pennsylvania senator to insist his remarks were misreported. ( Read more... )

When Does Speaking a Foreign Language Get a Candidate in Trouble?

Every four years, it seems, one of the major issues in the U.S. presidential campaign is how many languages the candidates speak, the implication being: the fewer, the better. This year, we’ve seen Newt Gingrich knock Mitt Romney for speaking French, as well as general mockery of ( Read more... )

VOCABULARY POST: Slurs in the English Language

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