http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19929249

And damn right too 😆

It always used to amuse me when Spike in Buffy called people a w****r! I’ve heard it used in other American programmes as well.
Back in the 18th Century, I think it was, Americans complained loudly about ‘Britishisms’ corrupting their American English! Bill Bryson wrote about it in Mother Tongue.

It always used to amuse me when Spike in Buffy called people a w****r! I’ve heard it used in other American programmes as well.

I remember years ago Phil Collins being interviewed about an acting part (in Miami Vice I think) and saying how his script was peppered with ‘w*@$%rs’. The script writers had no idea what it meant they just thought it was something brits said a lot