Separated by a Common Language

• -og and -ogue 3 months ago Rachel Ward aka @FwdTranslations just asked me via Twitter: Trying to check usage of epilog(ue) and prolog(ue) in US spelling. Seen suggestion that "ue" forms still more widely used. True?
• crosswords 3 months ago I've just come out from under several painful deadlines and am ready to do some blogging. And the note that I've written to myself is: crosswords. I wrote this note on 11 January, the day that one of the most famous British crossword compilers announced, via his puzzle, that he had terminal...
• untangle and disentangle 5 months ago So, there I was, enjoying a nice evening of nothing while on (AmE) vacation/(BrE) holiday, when Dave Summers of Ohio tweeted me to ask: Heard "disentangle" the other day. Is that perhaps BrE for "untangle"? ...
• 2012 US-to-UK Word of the Year: wonk 6 months ago As I noted in the UK-to-US WotY post, this hasn't been a particularly 'big' year for American imports to Britain. Those that were nominated were mostly things that were not clearly American before they were British; that is (in many cases), though an American may have been first to use them, they...
• 2012 UK-to-US WotY: bollocks 6 months ago For the first time in six years, I feel spoil{t/ed} for choice in deciding on a UK-to-US Word of the Year, but have a hard time thinking of even one good candidate for US-to-UK. After the 2011 UK mediafrenzy of anti-Americanismism, 2012 was the year of hoopla about Britishisms in America. There...

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