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Tag Archives: British vs American usage
Can ‘Cheers!’ be inappropriate? The story of email sign-offs
In one of our previous posts Ingrid Tieken wrote about her analysis of commonly used email sign-offs she found while going through her inbox. (To find out more about the differences she found between American, British and non-native email authors, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alina Simone, British vs American usage, Cheers!, email signoff, Patrick Cox, The World in Words
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On snuck and sneaked
Mesthrie et al. write on p. 23 of their book Introducing Sociolinguistics (2nd ed., 2009, Edinburgh University Press, that different verb forms are regarded as standard in the UK than in the US. One example they is give is snuck/sneaked, … Continue reading
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Tagged British vs American usage, Bryan Garner, Jennifer Garner, snuck
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