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A chicken and egg thing perhaps Bill, but since the advent of TV for all and large proportions of US TV series to be seen in the UK, plus major US influence from the internet its all hardly surprising. It actually goes back further than that, I can remember at school being severely reprimanded by my peers for chewing gum, using the term OK and people wearing jeans and T shirts was more than frowned upon. In fact, I have never worn a T shirt or a pair of jeans and I cannot bear people chewing gum. Sorry, but all this was going on in my formative years!

I well remember one of my close school friends(we still are) an American, dancing around with frustration at us using the current British slang term "US", meaning useless. He was not impressed! Even though he understood full well that we were using the first two letters of useless and not referring to his country. One needs to remember after WW2 the American dream was what everyone in bombed out, war torn, rationed Europe tried to emulate, almost anything was better than what we had. So its been going on for sometime and perhaps it will take time yet for it all to be sorted out. In the meantime----------

or in the British Military and Civilian, Electronics technicians world, it is an official term, US or when written U/S means UnServiceable.