Viewpoint: Why do some Americanisms irritate people?
   British people are used to the stream of Americanisms entering the language. But some are worse than others, argues Matthew Engel.
     * Listen to Matthew Engel discuss 'Americanisms' on Four Thought on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday 13 July at 2045 BST
   The first class I call Americanisms, by which I understand an use of phrases or terms, or a construction of sentences, even among persons of rank and education, different from the use of the same terms or phrases, or the construction of similar sentences, in Great Britain.
   The word Americanism, which I have coined for the purpose, is exactly similar in its formation and signification to the word Scotticism.
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