Separated by a Common Language

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...

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...