Tuesday, July 28, 2020

New English words and Americanisms every day



Today I read in the newspaper about Americans discussing the'hood' for neighbourhood. What a lot of new words.

Here's a quick short list:
bling - ostentatious glittering objects such as sequinned clothes and large diamond rings
Feds - Federal officers
highway patrol - motorway police
hood - Americanism - neighbourhood
pharma - pharmaceutical industry
rangers - park staff
woke - African American from the verb awake, (no ed past tense) alert to injustice or racism

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