Denise and Louise chat about 4 features of written language that are often thought to be Americanisms but aren’t. 

Listen To Find Out More About:

• -iz- spellings
• serial commas
• em dashes
• which/that in restrictive relative clauses

Mentioned In The Show

• Lexico/Oxford: ‘The Differences Between British and American Terms’
• Lynne Murphy on British and American English (video)
• Free PDF booklet: Verbs ending in -ize, -ise, -yze and -yse

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Denise And Louise

Denise Cowle Editorial Services

Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor

Music Credit

‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.