Friday, August 15, 2014

"No worries"

When we first moved to Los Feliz, I was sitting in the Coffee Bean one day and a fellow customer asked if she could take the spare chair at my table. I said, "No worries," and she took it but then turned back:

"Are you Australian?"

"Was it the accent?" I asked.

"No, it was 'no worries'," she said.

Since then, in the last six months, I've heard Americans saying "no worries" several times. Is this how phrases catch on? Should I start saying, "No sweat" and see what happens?

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