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The American idiom gone missing?

Posted by ESC on June 17, 2004

In Reply to: The American idom gone missing? posted by Word Camel on June 17, 2004

: Here's an interesting article about the lack of the equivalent of phrases like "at the end of the day", "at university" and "gone missing" in American English.

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Could we, like, pass a law in the U.S. against using British expressions? Now that we have BBC America things will really get out of hand.

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