How often do you use American words instead of English ones?

Name: How often do you use American words instead of English ones?
Uploaded: 2025-11-04T09:44:19.189Z
Duration: 1 min 13 s
Description: How often do you find yourself using American words instead of the English version? A survey of teachers found that some feel that too many of their pupils are using US words.

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How often do you find yourself using American words instead of the English version?

A survey of teachers found that some feel too many of their pupils are using US words.

So that's like using 'candy' instead of 'sweets' or 'garbage' over 'rubbish'.

Why does it happen and does it matter? Nina has been taking a look.

5 hours ago