A family divided by language

The World

 Host Marco Werman talks with The World’s Patrick Cox, who introduces us to Lynne Murphy, author of a new book about the differences between US-English and British-English. Murphy, an American, teaches linguistics in the UK, where she lives with her British husband and daughter. 

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