Separated by a Common Language

In a year like this year, it's no surprise that most of the Word-of-the-Year nominations related to politics, either directly or indirectly (like the 2016 UK-to-US WotY). Several of my correspondents have been noticing Americanisms in British political talk and Britishisms in American political talk....

This was the third year that I (kind of) declared October Untranslatables Month on my Twitter feed. (Here's 2011 and here's 2012.) Instead of offering a 'Difference of the Day', I offered an 'Untranslatable of the Day'. Except that I started on the 7th of October and occasionally I forgot to do it....

My thanks to everyone who has engaged in the nominations and debate on Words of the Year for 2009. Here's a reminder of the rules (I'm a Libran with Virgo rising/ascendant, I've gotta have rules): We have (at least) two Words of the Year here at SbaCL, and nominations are open for both categories...

My posts are so long these days. Can I do a short one? I'll try writing about a single word and see what happens.My friend Maverick (an Englishwoman) was talking to an American friend via Skype, and the following happened:There was some banter as I had accused of him of pontificating (as opposed...