Why English is the best language for Wordle, with Lynne Murphy
Grammar Girl: For Writers and Language Lovers.
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Separated by a Common Language
British people say um, and uh, just like American people do, but they just spell it differently. I discovered this when I watched a lot of subtitled television in the middle of the night because that's how you spell the pause sound in British English. The R there is not signaling er, it's signaling the quality of the vowel before. And related to that, I was doing some research on when you say, oh, these, right, that kind of exasperated please. Americans will spell it P U H. Lee's. Very often few other ways, but mostly P U H and the British writers were spelling it P U R with the same thing.
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