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| | There is an old saying that America and Britain are "two nations divided by a common language." No one knows exactly who said this, but it reflects the way many Brits feel about American English.
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| | Apropos of our recent discussion of the 'oo' vowel in Multicultural London English: The 'oo' vowel in 'goose' is undergoing a fairly remarkable worldwide shift. ...
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| | Buy the book! Sheidlower, Jesse. The F-Word, 4th edition. Oxford University Press, 2024. 449 pages. US$22.99. Back when I was a teen, c. 1980, some friends and I were cruising the streets of Seaside Heights, New Jersey on an off-season night. With us was a friend-of-a-friend, someone I did not know. He got into a...
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| Imparadise is a lovely verb meaning "to place in paradise". Incidentally, paradise originally meant a walled garden, like the one in w...