Is the Internet Americanising (or Americanizing) British English? &8211; Telegraph Blogs 
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Is the Internet Americanising (or Americanizing) British English?	#
t are we also starting to write like Americans? Is the combination of the Internet and US-designed spell-check programmes (or programs) hastening the Americanization of British English? 
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, “honey-coloured”, “antagonize”, “just how much” and “do you have?” (instead of “have you got?”) Hardly anyone these days thinks of these phrases as Americanisms. Yet “sidewalk”, “back of” (for behind) and “excuse me?” (if you haven’t heard someone) have failed to penetrate at all. “Mad” still means insane #
finish on a positive note. In my own lifetime, there has been a comprehensive shift in Britain towards “ise” instead of “ize” in such words as, well, Americanize. You can see why it has happened: using both forms means having to remember which words can only be written with “ise”; but using “ise” is never wrong.#
back elected sheriffs, local control of welfare, proper parliamentary control of the executive and the rest of the Direct Democracy agenda . It’s not Americanization; it’s repatriation. 
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 Tags: Americanisms , Anglosphere , British Library , dialect , English language , internet 
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