Separated by a Common Language
explore[s] the often subtle differences in American and British English.
- By Lynne Murphy
- Based in United Kingdom
- Roughly 11 posts per year
- First post on
Posts per year
| Year starting | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 2 |
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2022 | 14 |
| 2023 | 12 |
| 2024 | 7 |
Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.
Most recent posts
I've just found a bunch of research on my computer about conflab. I can't remember why I saved a bunch of corpus results on it, but maybe it was season/series 5 of Succession that brought …
I have been asked many times if I've written about stodgy, and I always think I have, because I wrote a post about other BrE -odgy adjectives. I have no idea why stodgy didn't make …
Inspired by Anatoly Liberman's Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms (which I've reviewed for the International Journal of Lexicography), here's a quick dip into some ways of saying one's going to …