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The Prodigal Tongue: The LoveHate Relationship Between British and American English

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By (author): Lynne Murphy

The first and perhaps only book on the relative merits of American and British English that is dominated by facts and analysis rather than nationalistic prejudice. For all its scholarship, this is also a funny and rollicking read.

The Economist, Books of the Year

 

Only an American would call autumn fall or refer to a perfectly good pavement as a sidewalk Not so, says Lynne Murphy. The English invented sidewalk in the seventeenth century and in 1693 John Dryden wrote the line, Or how last fall he raised the weekly bills.

Perhaps we dont know our own language quite as well as we thought.

Murphy, an American linguist in Britain, dissects the myths surrounding British and American English in a laugh-out-loud exploration of how language works and where it's going.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Mar 2018
  • Publisher: Oneworld Publications
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781786072696

About Lynne Murphy

Lynne Murphy is a professor in linguistics at the University of Sussex. She blogs at separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com and tweets @lynneguist. A dual British/American citizen she lives in Brighton.

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