The other morning on my way in to work I passed the van of a pharmacy whose slogan is ‘Dispensing quality’, and some linguistically minded prankster had inserted ‘with’ between the two words, showing what a difference one small preposition…
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It all depends on the prepositions
Tagged with: American English, British and American, British and American English, British English, GB, preposition, prepositions, UK, US, US English
Posted in Grammar, Proofreading/copy-editing, Vocabulary
Posted in Grammar, Proofreading/copy-editing, Vocabulary
You spell it potarto, I spell it potayto…
Although it is not certain who was the first to describe the USA and the UK as ‘two countries divided by a common language’, there is no doubt they were right when it came to spelling. The many subtle differences…