10.Paris, Rome, Peking had had no more effect on her Americanism than Elliott's devout Catholicism on her robust, but not inconvenient, Presbyterian faith.
11.Some expressions that the British call" Americanisms" are in fact original British expressions that were preserved in the colonies while lost for a time in Britain.
12.Americanism would have been bad form in the liberal Edinburgh Review; it would have seemed eccentric even for a Scotchman, and Reeve was a Saxon of Saxons.
14.But such reforms were fiercely criticized in Britain, and even in America a so-called " Dictionary War" ensued between supporters of Webster's Americanism and the more conservative British-influenced approach of Joseph Worcester and others.