| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Briticism |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Brit·i·cism |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  br t -sz  m |
| VARIANT FORMS: | also Brit·ish·ism (-shzm) |
| NOUN: | A word, phrase, or idiom characteristic of or peculiar to English as it is spoken in Great Britain. | | ETYMOLOGY: | From Briti(sh), on the model of words such as Gallicism.
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