British versus American: twee, bumbershoot, amongst, and more, with Ben Yagoda. Grammar Girl 1042

[@JaeJaeG]

Love this! Ty! 🎉❤

[@SlicedZucchini]

when my mom came to America 52 years ago, she didn't know anyone nor spoke, wrote or read any English or know anything about the culture, but I know she learned English from a gigantic Oxford dictionary, which I stole, I mean gently and kindly borrowed, and would read it a lot while learning from her through spoken word and I have a tendency to speak and write in a British manner and never knew it; as for the dates, I would write it out depending what I'm doing, for example, common for most people to understand, 12/23/1986, but if I write it out, 23Dec 1986, and if I'm archiving like on my phone where I list chronologically, I would do 1986/12/23 (by the by, my birthday was a few days ago which is why I was using that date haha)

[@Qermaq]

The beauty of the US date convention is there could be no Pi day in the other format. 3/14 cannot be anything but March 14. There is no 14th month, and 31/4 won't work because "thirty days hath... April...."

[@lynnbennett9007]

Grey vs gray. My understanding has always been that Grey is a common last name (especially in Britain, e.g. Earl Grey) and gray is the color. Thanks so much for today's post.

[@Qermaq]

"Twee" seems to be similar to "maudlin" in a way, pointing out the excess of emotional string-pulling.

[@ajs41]

I'm British and I've never heard of the word bumbershoot.

[@JaeJaeG]

12:08 Because it isn't. 👍

[@TerraAreiaEBarro]

😮

[@barneybyron8438]

Grey/gray are both correct. The original letter was an ash which is a cross between A and E. Football is the game you play with your feet 🤣