Bergin's blog

The English language in England has taken an awful turn in recent years. I understand that there will always be changes in language, and indeed, I understand that this is beautiful thing. But this trend annoys the bollocks off me and shames the youth of this country. Honestly, I couldn’t care less about how they talk in America, or how they behave. It’s all relevant in American and stems from trends that actually originated in that country, and I’m happy for people over there to speak in whatever way they’d like.

You’ll never see me cringe at an American uttering words like “dude” or “awesome”, which are, for the most part, words that were popularised in that country by the California surfer culture in the 90’s. But what does make me convulse is the trend of younger people in England over the last few years to forcibly adopt an American lexicon into their everyday sp
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