On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 22:19:21 +0100, "Apd" wrote:

"NY" wrote:
America is great for coming up with new usages and phrases which we in the
UK condemn as "too American", and then a few decades later we start to adopt
as if we'd invented them :-)

Or spelling which we (UK) think of as American but in many cases has
origins in English/Latin/French and where both forms were used (e.g.
by Shakespeare) before the UK and US standardised (standardized) on
their own particular preferences.

However the one word that still grates on my ears, several decades after I
first heard it, is the business buzzword "leverage"

"We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our
key learnings".

http://dilbert.com/strip/1998-11-26

You can add to that my bugbear: "going forward". Well, where else is
your business going - backwards, sideways?

In addition to all of the above, I'll add any sentence that begins with,
"At the end of the day..."

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Char Jackson