The American idiom gone missing?

Posted by ESC June 17, 2004In 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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The American idiom gone missing? Brian from Shawnee 17/June/04
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