Separated by a Common Language

This post is inspired by a poll that Ellen Jovin, aka the Grammar Table , ran in September. Before I get into that, let me point out that th...

Congratulations to Ben Yagoda on his new book Gobsmacked: The British Invasion of American English !  If you like this blog, you are going t...

Before the school year started, the 16-year-old and I (BrE) had a day out at a "Learn to Crochet" course. Here's my first. sl...

I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I notice things. One thing I’ve noticed is that no one seems to be able to agree with anyone else without...

I'm in the US at the moment, where two of my nephews have recently finished (mostly now AmE in this sense) high school . That is to say,...

I've just found a bunch of research on my computer about  conflab .  I can't remember why I saved a bunch of corpus results on it, b...

I have been asked many times if I've written about stodgy , and I always think I have, because I wrote a post about other BrE - odgy adj...

Inspired by Anatoly Liberman's Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms  (which I've reviewed for the International Journ...