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American style has gotten out of hand | Brief letters

Language tariffs | Preventing divorce | Dogs v children | Canine love | Migrant swifts | No full stopsFollowing Donald Trump’s demand that news agencies amend their style guides to reflect current US terminology (like “Gulf of America”), has the Guardian now fallen into line too? Martin Kettle (Opinion, 29 May) tosses in a casual “gotten” (“so far Charles has gotten away with it”) and Rebecca Nicholson (TV review, 28 May) idly talks of turning on a “faucet” (“the faucet of public attention”). I suggest a 25% tariff on unwonted and unwanted Americanisms.Simon ElmesLondon• Gwyneth Paltrow once said that, according to her father, the secret behind her parents’ 30-year marriage in the divorce-ridden world of Hollywood was that “they never wanted to get divorced at the same time” (Letters, 27 May).Richard EhrlichLondon Continue reading...

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