Lynne Murphy

The Prodigal Tongue

The Love-Hate Relationship Between British and American English

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'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 YearOnly 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 don't know our own language quite as well as we thought. Murphy, an American linguist in Britain, dissects the… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78607-270-2
EAN: 9781786072702
Produktnummer: 26812882
Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 304 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'284 KB

Über den Autor

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.