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Don't you just hate Americans?: SOUR YANKS NEED SWEETENING UP AFTER YESTERDAY– LIKE THIS!

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Tuesday, July 5, 2005

SOUR YANKS NEED SWEETENING UP AFTER YESTERDAY– LIKE THIS!

What’s so very annoying to the English is the way Americans continue to mess about with their language. Labour is now spelt labor, behaviour has become behavior and every other word seems to end in –ize. Yesterday, July 4, the Yanks were no doubt celebrating Independence Day with Coca Cola and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Don't you just hate Americans? Everything about them is so utterly crass, so second-rate – from the sloppy way they dress to their junk food and whinging nasal twang. If only they’d leave us alone. But, being Yanks, they won’t, or can't. To a man – even, it seems, to a woman – their sole aim in life is to turn us into Uncle Sams. Sadly, here in the United Kingdom it’s working all too well. Monopoly control of film distribution and cheap TV series ensure American ‘culture’ is everywhere. The result? Massive sales of Levi jeans, MacDonalds burgers, Ford and GM cars, Starbucks coffee, Budweiser beer, Jack Daniel’s whiskey, Dell and Macintosh computers – you name it. And all, in the end, to the detriment of our own native culture. However, for us British it doesn’t have to be this way. From today – appropriately, the eve of Prince Charles' and Camilla Barker-Bowles' historic wedding – let’s strive to make a stand against American encroachment. Let’s, for example: • S

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