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Observations on British and American English by an American linguist in the UK
Jan 11, 2022
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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Dec 31, 2021
the best language books I read in 2021
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I am an inveterate life-logger. At the end of a calendar year, I like to review what I've done, what I've liked, what I've been ...
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Dec 26, 2021
cake
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Baking and baked goods are a perennial source of US/UK miscommunication—in large part because most of our current baking/eating habits wer...
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Jun 6, 2021
painting as decorating
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We're four months into a major renovation project and the walls (at least) are finished, so we're getting our brains around painting...
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May 26, 2021
toodle-something
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credit: twistynoodle Fifteen years! That's how long this blog has been going. Happy anniversary to me! And thank you all coming along wi...
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