This is an All-Ears English podcast episode 863. What is an Americanism? Get four examples today.

Welcome to the All-Ears English podcast where you'll finally get real native English

conversation and fluency for business and life. We believe in connection not perfection when it comes to learning English.

Now here are your hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York Radio Girl coming to you from

Boston and New York City, USA.

Today we bring in an article from the BBC where British people gave us their top American phrases that annoy them.

Find out what they are today.

Hey Lindsay, how you doing?

Hey Michelle doing pretty well, how about you?

I'm good, I'm good, just excited about the holidays, exciting times coming up, right?

It is exciting, it is exciting.

I'm excited to get my niece a Christmas present.

Oh, you have it.

Oh, so what are you like?

I'm the last minute kind of girl. So, yeah. I might get her like, I don't know, some kind of cool like dress because she loves dresses. So I might get her a new outfit to add to her like 25 dresses.

Oh, she likes a lot of clothes.

Yeah, I remember you saying she loves shoes and things like that.

Oh my gosh, yeah.

So funny. Sounds like a girly girl.

She's a total girly girl. That's so cute. So yeah, today we are going to talk about something interesting and it's really interesting to me because I lived in London for a little bit right?

Lindsay? Yes exactly. So I think a lot of I mean I don't want to generalize but

many Americans kind of have a fascination with English, especially the English

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