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Here's a story of curiosity and exploration and enjoying where it took me.
I was (orig. AmE) fooling around with a corpus interface (in preparation for teaching students how to use it), and I asked it for adjectives that go after the adverb altogether. I don't know why I chose that word, but I did. And I noticed something: in the
When talking with a fellow American-in-Britain and lexicographer recently (hello, Katherine!), the topic of meal deals came up. I thought: great topic for a blog post. Then I discovered this is something that this US-UK lunch-consumption difference has been discussed a lot on the web already. But that's never stopped me from (BrE) having a more lin...