Or consider her new book, The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English, which assaults the British obsession of attacking US English with cold, hard facts. “There is a tendency in Britain to see linguistic things you don’t like as American,” Murphy told the Guardian. Murphy challenges her birth country’s habit of fawning over silly British words (which are sometimes American. “Nowadays, pride in American English seems to have gone the same way as our pride in being a monarchy-free republic,” Murphy writes. Do you know whether they are American, British or neither?

Source: The Guardian April 10, 2018 10:00 UTC