Separated by a Common Language
Observations on British and American English by an American linguist in the UK
May 2, 2023
baggage and luggage
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results of a Google search for "luggage" I'm reading Ingrid Paulsen's The emergence of American English as a discursive va...
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Apr 11, 2023
NYT Spelling Bee: an archive of disallowed BrE words
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Twitter has been my main internet stomping ground since 2009, but I've been withdrawing my labo(u)r from it since October, when it beca...
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Apr 3, 2023
puh-lease/pur-lease
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My obsession with the word please keeps leading me to new discoveries. This time: a spelling difference! One particular use of please is t...
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Mar 13, 2023
what 'polite' means: Culpeper, O'Driscoll & Hardaker (2019)
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I've studied the word please off and on for a few years now.* Currently, I'm trying to finish up a study that I started an embarr...
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Feb 19, 2023
veteran and vet (noun)
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More than once, I think, veteran or (the noun vet) has been nominated for US>UK Word of the Year. Dru, who nominated it for 2022, f...
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