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A witty and informative study of the linguistic gap between American and British English discusses differences in spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary, as well as expressions that have vastly different meanings in the two countries and the cultural idiosyncracies of American and British language. Reprint.
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CHRISTOPHER DAVIES was born and raised in England and spent several years living in Australia and New Zealand. In 1980 he settled in Florida. The many unfamiliar expressions and pronunciations that he encountered in American English led him to write Divided by a Common Language.
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0618002758
- ISBN 13 9780618002757
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages248
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