Is this the same in your classroom?

[RaraRachael]

I'm getting more and more examples of children using American words in the classroom - we've had movies, eraser, recess, diapers and today I showed them a picture of a bottle of lemonade and they all chorused "soda"

It drives me round the bend! I'm in Scotland and they are much more likely to use American words than ones from our local dialect.

Anyone else have this too?

Lemonade is a type of soda.

Yes!! From reception to secondary, this is prevalent in my area (NW England). Some EYFS even have slight American accents.

Yep, a three year old asked me where the trash can was !

@EllieNBeeb

Lemonade is a type of soda.

Lemonade is never called soda where I live

Yes! Had to teach my year 1 / 2 class last week that the correct word is 'rubbish', not junk or trash.

We've also got butt or ass and a child telling me I'd said a rude word when I read a story about a donkey but called it an ass.

We have at least 3 children who have completely American accents, despite never having been near the place!

@stdmumihope

Yes! Had to teach my year 1 / 2 class last week that the correct word is 'rubbish', not junk or trash.

What does trash mean, then?

Worse is when the young trainee teachers start to do it too...

The children in my class now ask if they can go to the 'bathroom' and one even said 'rest room'. They call Maths 'Math' which really gets on my wick.

Sorry! This is my fault, and the fault of all parents who let their children watch YouTube.

“Candy” is the most irritating word though.

And calling the police the 'feds'

@ValancyRedfern oh gosh, yes, remember that from secondary! Cue a lecture from me on political structures .

The children in my school are mostly from Asia. They all have American accents when they speak English. They learned English from the telly/youtube/films.

Are you in Scotland and from Scotland? I grew up there and loads of people said soda. A lot of Americanisms come from Scotland and Ireland.

Movies is prevalent everywhere and has been for years. I am not keen either but plenty of film critics use it!

I am from Scotland and live there. Nobody in my area ever used soda for lemonade.

Interestingly younger work colleagues describe films as movies but to us oldies they're fillums

Pitchers to me!

Honestly, we used to say soda in the 80s.

I'm from the central belt and people would say fizzy drink or juice, not soda when I was growing up.

I'm NE and we called everything lemonade - green lemonade, red lemonade etc.
My English MiL thought it very odd.

Long ago lemonade was known as dazzle or sproosh (not sure if that was just a family one!)

It may be having an American base in my town, I suppose (and my DM is American) but there was a soda box where you put your old glass bottles too.