BlackBerry cupcakes and Googling: new study of UK children's language
Posted in: Internet Use/New Technologies at 30/05/2012 14:16
Fairycakes have been replaced by cupcakes, while someone going to a black-tie event will be sporting a tuxedo rather than a dinner jacket - at least according to the current generation of British children.
A new analysis of children's writing by Oxford University Press has revealed the extent to which American English has colonised Britain.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/may/28/blackberry-cupcakes-study-uk-childrens-language
