Who’s Polluting Whose English?
http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2018/04/10/whos-polluting-whose-english/ [www.chronicle.com]
2018-04-25 17:28
The quiz is stolen — or, as Brits would say, nicked — from Lynne Murphy’s entertaining and enlightening new book, The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English. Murphy grew up in America and since 2000 has been teaching linguistics at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England. That makes her the perfect person to chronicle the differences and similarities between the language as it’s used on either side of the Atlantic.