There’s a piece in today’s Guardian here:
Do you want fries with that? Data shows Americanization of English is rising
on the use of Google Ngram Viewer to document the spread of American English. It includes a link to the original paper.
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To be taken with many grains (or pinches) of salt: https://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/the-americanization-of-english.html
I’ve just run a search for ‘fries’ in the new spoken British National Corpus 2014 — the word is mentioned twice as often as in the original BNC dating from 1994 :)
There will also be many more instances of ‘burrito’ and ‘pulled pork’. This is evidence of import of foreign foods, not necessarily evidence of “Americanization” of the language.