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Observations on British and American English by an American linguist in the UK

May 12, 2025

tons, loads and heaps of

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Harry Enfield, Loadsamoney I belong to  a fantastic international writing group . There, last week, I presented a paragraph that included ...
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Apr 19, 2025

Anglo-Saxon

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The first thing that made me want to write about Anglo-Saxon was my experience of French exchange students using the term to mean 'anglo...
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Mar 17, 2025

recipe verbs

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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...
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Feb 9, 2025

-ed versus -t

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Ben Yagoda  (Friend of SbaCL and  Not One-Off Britishisms blogger) , who had recently noticed a US journalist saying learnt instead of l...
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Dec 31, 2024

US-to-UK Word of the Year 2024: landslide

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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...
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