Why Brits eat biscuits and Americans eat cookies. Why brands keep nouning everything. Hamster alert.

<p>This week, in honor of National Cookie Day, we look at the vocabulary split between British and American English, including the differences between a cookie and a biscuit, and the two meanings of "pudding." Then, we look at anthimeria, the advertising trend of turning one part of speech into another, as in the slogan "Together makes progress."</p><p>The anthimeria segment was by <a href="https://benyagoda.blog/">Ben Yagoda</a>,whose books include "Gobsmacked! The British Invasion of American English" and the novel "Alias O. Henry." His podcast is "<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lives-theyre-living/id1744211348">The Lives They’re Living</a>."</p><p>🔗 <strong>Share your familect recording in </strong><a href="https://www.speakpipe.com/GrammarGirl"><strong>Speakpipe</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p><p>🔗 <strong>Watch my </strong><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/learning/instructors/mignon-fogarty" target="_blank"><strong>LinkedIn Learning writing courses</strong...