There have been many observations of American influence on Australian language to date, but mostly there is significant influence on the younger generation. As Generation Y (those of us born from the 1980's to just before the 2000's) evolves into watching more and more television and spending more hours, online the common American idioms and phrases become interwoven in everyday vocabulary.
Studies show that Australian teens have already become accustomed to saying words and phrases like "flashlight" "sidewalk" "homeland security" "911" and "loser".
These words have been commonly labelled as Americanisms. There's probably something ironic about putting a label on it, don't you think?
Influences on Australian English
Wednesday, 22 July 2015
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International Influences on Australian English


The internet
world also brings great influence from American computer companies such as
Microsoft which uses spelling corrections so what we would know as colour they
would use colour and what we would know as organisation they would know as
organization.
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