Separated by a Common Language

When I first moved to the UK, I hungrily watched the (orig. AmE) tv in my sublet apartment/flat   in an attempt to acculturate myself. I ca...

Ben Yagoda  (Friend of SbaCL and  Not One-Off Britishisms blogger) , who had recently noticed a US journalist saying learnt instead of l...

I've been struck by the lack of election-related 2024 Words of the Year from the English dictionaries  (for a list, see November's n...

So much of the "news" this year was about female popular music stars. The year started with Beyonce going country, then Charlie XC...

When I was growing up in New York State, a beanie  was a silly kind of skull cap, mostly worn by young people. My high school gave away felt...