Before I start what will surely be a very long post, let me say that I love languages. I love learning them, reading about them, listening to them. My biggest regret in college was not going for a linguistics degree because I didn't realize I could until it was too late.
So I'm bringing up this topic because of two things. One was an article I saw on the BBC news website
where Britons got to complain about their least favourite Americanisms and the other was something someone at work...