If Americans roll their eyes at each other for pretentious uses of British English like “flat” and “queue,” Brits are just as likely to look down on compatriots who use Americanisms like “take-out” and “shopping cart.”
But are the UK’s pet peeves really so trans-Atlantic?
The Guardian‘s Steven Poole points out that lots of the words and phrases Brits dismiss as American nonsense are less apple pie and more steak-and-kidney pudding—all the way up to “soccer,” which started as an English abbreviation of “association football.”
