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As of now, two friends have forwarded me the New Yorker‘s recent article about American adoption of British soccer/football terminology–especially treating teams as plural, such as “England have advanced to the semifinals”–with messages along the lines of…

Sometimes a NOOB just slips right by me.

Thanks to everybody who entered the competition to win a signed copy of my book Gobsmacked!

Unaccountably, this blog has now has had more than 3,500,000 page views, which would seem to prove that the more arcane the topic, the more attention it will attract.

I see that only once in the history of Not One-Off Britishisms have I addressed the expression “to move house,” which is the British equivalent of what Americans mean when they say, “to move.”

Some time ago, I was reading an American friend’s Facebook post.

It won’t surprise you to learn that I keep a file of Britishisms I encounter here in the U.S.A.

My friend Michael Regan, a Bloomberg journalist, sent me a link to a Bloomberg article Mike commented: “Gazump: Fun new Britishism making the rounds on Wall Street.”

I’m (usually) not one to turn down a challenge, so a post the other day by Lynne Murphy, the OG of British-American language differences, caught my attention.

I’ve just finished a book called The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of Elements, by Sam Kean.