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Paul Baker, American and British English: Divided by a common language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xiii + 264. ISBN 1107088863 Hardback, ISBN 1107460881 Paperback.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2018

Gunnel Tottie
Gunnel Tottie*
Affiliation:
English Department, University of Zurich, Plattenstrasse 47, CH-8032Zurich, [email protected]
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English Language & Linguistics , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , March 2020 , pp. 243 - 248
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Footnotes

I thank Sebastian Hoffmann for discussing an earlier version with me; all opinions and/or mistakes are mine.

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