319: The Prodigal Tongue (featuring Lynne Murphy) - a podcast by Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

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British and American English have always had a love-hate relationship. British people (and Australians) often blame Americans for somehow tarnishing the language, and they fret about creeping Americanism. But people are terrible at identifying what the Americanisms actually are. How well can you do? We're talking to author Lynne Murphy on this episode of Talk the Talk.

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