''best-by date'' and ''sell-by date'' didn't come from Britain. They came from such terms being applied to food items in the US. Some of these other terms I never hear used here unless it's by some celebrity or other person pretending to be British.

I worked for several years for a guy from Scotland ... I use some of those "isms" and a few others.

A few good ones we can use here without sounding bad are
"wanker, tosser, skeevy, chav and bloody hell".

Ex husband from the UK and I suffer from way too much of the Daily Mail and British TV.

"Gone missing" and "spot on" used by Americans set my teeth on edge. I hope the worst Briticism of all never makes it over here: "will do." As in:

Me: "Is your daughter attending that school?"

Brit: "She will do."

Will do what? Will do attend that school? Why the extra word?

Katie is obviously very young or has been living in a cave somewhere and just emerged. Many of those expressions were with us (my parents, who were not Brits said "go missing") for a long, long time.

Is she an intern? This is not exactly pithy stuff.

Wanker, old sport, jolly good, 'proper' as an adjective, scouse.

Shag ya later, byebee.

Hey, if it's annoying we're after, my #1 nomination is "methinks". Followed by "my bad". I'm sure I'll think of others but those run rampant on threads here.

But is it really important enough to make a fuss over?

Cheeky and twee are very descriptive.

Lor' luv a duck! Bloody 'ell, we've used deese fer years.

Oh, bollocks, this can't be true!

oops...

I live in the absolute worst buzz word world, the cross-section of technology and sales in my position. Any new buzzword, from the 1980s-present, including gems like triangulate, interface with you offline, doesn't have any lead in his pencil, getting thrown under the bus, at the end of the day (my #1 hated phrase), big data, all hat no cattle, caught in the propwash, go to market strategy, share of wallet, customer sat, and on and on and on----I have never heard one of these phrases from the article. Twee? Long game? Never heard of them. Filler article.

To be 'peckish' is to be hungry....

After watching years of 'Top Gear' (the real one, not the horrid American version) I find myself using the British pronunciation of aluminium. I haven't switched over to the words boot (trunk), saloon (sedan), estate (station wagon) or zed (z) and if I do, then I'll know I've been watching too much BBC America.

Drives me nuts when the Daily Mail shows Hollywood celebrities sitting court-side at Staples Center with a caption about how they're enjoying "the basketball" - when what they're actually enjoying is a basketball GAME.

That, and "pins" - if they can't call them "legs" then "gams" would be preferable.

I don't know about "isms" but I sure wish the English language would creep back into our culture.

Cheers!

There's one jobsworth in Washington we need to rid ourselves of: Barack Obama. After that, all will be tickety-boo here in the colonies.

Brilliant!

I'll never get used to the way they say someone is "in hospital" over there. Needs the "the"!

My favorite which was not mentioned in the article is "a dog's breakfast." Used in a sentence: "That wanker in the White House has made a dog's breakfast out of the economy."

Smashing !

What ! ?

Royt! Hey whot!

I'm guilty. My Britishisms come from watching "Top Gear" on BBC America.

Some are just quirky, but many are time efficient: "queue" instead of "getting in line."

Besides, most new American slang is coming from texting or rap. The first I can't say (too many numbers) the second I can't repeat (too obscene).

Ever since there have been open toe shoes in the USA thats what they were called, until the snobby American fashion magazines adopted the British name for them. "Peep toe".It's no big deal but why the use of the British term?

I've always "booked" flights, and I'm a senior citizen. I don't think that's a British-only expression.

Same as #13, I love Top Gear. The three genial car buffs who host the show are entertaining blokes. A few weeks ago when the Porsche Cayman S was being evaluated, comparisons were made with the cheaper Boxter and the more expensive 911 (which is, of course, one of the fastest passenger cars available), with special emphasis on the steady increases in displacement and horsepower with each successive model. There didn't seem to be much justification for the Cayman, they decided. My favourite of the hosts, Jeremy Clarkson, said that if you were sitting in a Cayman and pulled up next to a 911, "It would be like going to the urinals next to a horse." He pronounced urinals as "you-RYE-nuls." I laughed off and on for days after that quip.

That wanker Obama needs to shove off straight away.

Royt-o, #15!

I love ''bloody wanker''. I asked my British friend what it meant and now I love it even more!

Personally, the Ozzies have some pretty good ones too. My favorites are ''no worries'' and ''yeah, no''.

Another Top Gear fan here (the original BBC version, not the hideously awful American version). I have indeed adopted a number of Britishisms into my own vocabulary, the favorite of mine being "valet" pronounced as "VALLet" instead of "vallAY". I love how they hate the French. hahaaa

About 47 percent of schoolboys and girls these days can't reason and read. Thank a union.

Lots of folks on the Ameican south have never lost the 'Britishisms', aparently.

I can deal with Britishisms better than spanglish or ebonics.

Yes, what else does one say except book a flight? I don't think I can think of another way I have heard that.

We lived in Belgium for a few years and my husband worked with British people there, amongst others. Anyway, he did pick up "a dog's breakfast" there since he thought it was a great expression. We have dogs. Another term I tend to use is round-about for what is called a traffic circle here.

#35, Around where i live, we refer to traffic circles/round abouts" as "fruit loops".