Separated by a Common Language
Observations on British and American English by an American linguist in the UK
Jul 10, 2022
come on!
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I got this by email from a reader named Robbie: A while ago I watched several episodes of the US children's show "Bubble Guppies&qu...
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Apr 10, 2022
making and taking decisions
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I've mentioned making and taking decisions before (15 years ago!), in the context of writing about light verbs . That was back in the...
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Mar 6, 2022
judg(e)ment
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At some point in my American education, I learned that judgment was an American spelling and judgement was the preferred British spelling....
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Jan 31, 2022
flapjacks and pancakes
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I cannot believe I've never written a post about the word flapjack . So here it is. In AmE, flapjack is a synonym for pancake , as is ...
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Jan 11, 2022
US-to-UK Word of the Year 2021: "doon"
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Click here for the preamble to the 2021 Words of the Year and the UK-to-US word. As I discuss in the post at that link, 2021 was a dry year...
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UK-to-US Word of the Year 2021: university
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The annual preamble (you can make that rhyme if you try hard enough) Each year since 2006, this blog has designated Transatlantic Words of ...
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