Greg Rusedski, one of two British men to make the Wimbledon tennis quarter-finals, is a former Canadian although he has tactfully learned to sprinkle his conversation with Britishisms.

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Today respective leaders of the US and the UK still talk about the "special relationship" that started during WWII, and though it irks some, Americanisms still pervade British language, just as Britishisms are creeping into American language.

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