Example sentences for: briticisms

How can you use “briticisms” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Typical Canadian pronunciation is found in Quebec English, such as raising--actually incomplete shifting--of the /au/ phoneme, and the Briticisms been /bin/, tourniquet / `t\?\rnike/, and again /\?\gen.

  • On page 379 Green writes: There are, after all, a number of books of Americanisms but none, although there have been plans to fill this gap, of Briticisms.

  • I am reminded of an incident that took place some twenty years ago, when I first began visiting Britain regularly and was unfamiliar with nonliterary Briticisms.

  • For example, serviette, scone, sheila, sister, Smarties, spanner, spot on, squash, starkers , just to pick a handful, are Briticisms; although the author makes that clear, it seems odd that the words and expressions that are direct borrowings from British English are not individually identified as such.

  • Elsewhere, Briticisms might be felt to intrude in definitions, with words like dustman, dock-porter , etc., appearing here and there.


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