Grammar Girl here.
I'm Mignon Fogarty, and you can think of me as your friendly guide to the English language.
We talk about writing, history, rules, and other cool stuff, and we are going to talk about other cool stuff today because I have with me Lynne Murphy, professor of linguistics at the University of Sussex in England, author of one of my favorite books of all time, "The Prodigal Tongue," which is about the differences between American and British English.
And today we're going to talk about that, but also about Wordle.
Welcome, Lynne.
Thanks, I'm glad to be here.
Yes, I am glad to have you here.
So to give listeners a little bit of background, you and I were both guests on editor Mark's, Mark Allen's annual word of the year.
It's like a Zoom chat thing and Wordle came up.
Do you remember why we were talking about Wordle in the first place?
