Young British children are more likely than their big siblings to adopt American phrases, a new survey of teachers in the U.K. has found.

More than 50% of the teachers at elementary level schools who were surveyed said they had heard their students use the words "trash" or "garbage," rather than the more typical British terms "rubbish" or "waste."

The word "candy," rather than "sweets," was cited as the second-most imported word, as reported by 40% of the teachers surveyed.

The survey, conducted by Teacher Tapp for The Times of London, involved more than 10,000 educators, and the findings suggest the shift to Americanisms is particularly prevalent among younger children. The survey found that teachers of high school aged children reported fewer examples of such U.S. vocabulary slippin

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