What do Americans call Brits?
Juliet Upton
2025-04-21 00:40:31
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What is a slang word/term for a British person.
I know that Americans are called Yankees, it isn't derogatory in the US, but a foreigner calling an American a yankee is an insult.
The same thing for Canadians and the word Canuck.
What is a word that is similar to Yankee and Canuck which is used to describe Brits.
Camron Runolfsdottir
2025-04-21 00:31:16
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Brit is definitely a commonly used word for describing people from Britain. It is mostly used by non-brits. I am English and personally I don't like to be considered a 'Brit' because it has several negative connotations, one example being 'Brits Abroad' which refers to the British hooligan holidayers who travel to popular beach destinations and get drunk and disorderly. For this reason, I prefer English. I would also suggest that citizens of the other British countries would also prefer to be referred to by their own nationality (Irish, Scottish, Welsh) due to various conflicts in the past (generally with England). As for formality, it is definitely informal, having only come into use in the last century.
Cathy Towne
2025-04-20 19:53:40
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The term ‘lime-juicers’, considered hilarious by Australians, New Zealanders and South Africans, gradually became ‘limeys’, describing British land-lubbers as well as sailors and eventually losing any connection with the sea. It was then adopted by Americans in the early 20th century.
Ashlee Bins
2025-04-20 19:05:12
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We do know what to call the forces from Her Majesty's Government. Tommy is still used, taken from the name "Tommy Atkins" used on government forms, much as we use "John Doe" and "Jane Doe". However, the term preferred is Brits. A Canadian of British descent, Al Tassie, writes from Victoria, British Columbia, using the noun as an adjective: "I polled several Brit friends and not one objected to the word. A more popular word is kipper, and even the kippers call themselves kippers, at least in this neck of the woods. The scientific sample was selected and is subject to a polling error of plus or minus 100 percent. The result: 64 percent of the British respondents say they are happy with the appellation Brit, 19 percent think it is an undignified clip of the term British, and the remainder prefer not to be addressed at all until proper introductions have been made.
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