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Publisher Princeton University Press | Author Ben Yagoda | Reviewed by Nancy Wigston
When we hear “British Invasion” many of us remember the rock groups who appeared out of the UK in the 60s and 70s to dominate American Top Forty stations—the Beatles, the Stones, or the Animals. But not Ben Yagoda. This professor emeritus of English and Journalism from the University of Delaware puts quite a different spin on the term, notes Nancy Wigston. During years teaching in London, Yagoda noticed an emerging new British invasion, not as loud as rock music, but to a wordsmith like Yagoda, equally enveloping. Not only are Britishisms coming, they’re already part of the argot to varying degrees in North America, India, Southeast Asia and Oceana. The emergence of words like gobsmacked and plonk (cheap wine) as well as twee and the Scottish term kerfuffle are in common use thanks to comic Mike Myers. Read More
