British intellectuals enjoy bewailing the influx of Americanisms into the language of the mother country. The BBC once asked ...

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and peppered it with Britishisms," McKenna told EW. And Blunt deserves full credit for one bit she lifted from a stressed-out mom. "I guess I steal from people I meet," the actress explained on ...

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