More on British and American English
March 11, 2012 by Prof. David M. Schultz
Filed under Blog, Featured, Resources, Uncategorized, Writing
In a previous post, I had given a set of the more common rules for American and British English differences. Since then, I have received comments and emails asking me about how to submit to a journal that uses a form of English different from the one that you use. I can speak for myself […]
Denotation versus Connotation
May 21, 2011 by Prof. David M. Schultz
Filed under Blog, Writing
In Eloquent Science, I mention understanding the difference between denotation (the literal meaning of a word) and connotation (the idea or feeling that the word evokes in the listener). This idea hit home recently when I was co-writing a proposal with a British colleague. He had written the word “envisage”, which I thought sounded a […]
American versus British English
[DMS: This was a sidebar that I cut from the book. Even before I met and married my British–Australian wife, I had this sidebar in mind very early in the planning of the book.] Over 300 years of separation has led to discernible differences between English as practiced in the United States and English as […]
