Separated by a Common Language

For years, Ellen Jovin has carted a table, chair and reference books—first around New York City and later all across the United States—to v...

 So I tweeted this recently... Difference of the Day: I seriously cannot believe that I've never done BrE 'fit for purpose'. T...

 Reader Sam Fox wrote in with the question: I am an American, a Midwesterner all my life, though I have traveled quite a bit..   On a recent...

I got this by email from a reader named Robbie: A while ago I watched several episodes of the US children's show "Bubble Guppies&qu...

I've mentioned  making  and taking decisions  before (15 years ago!), in the context of writing about light verbs . That was back in the...

At some point in my American education, I learned that judgment  was an American spelling and judgement  was the preferred British spelling....

I cannot believe I've never written a post about the word flapjack . So here it is.  In AmE, flapjack is a synonym for pancake , as is ...

 Click here for the preamble to the 2021 Words of the Year and the UK-to-US word. As I discuss in the post at that link, 2021 was a dry year...

The annual preamble  (you can make that rhyme if you try hard enough) Each year since 2006, this blog has designated Transatlantic Words of ...