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Congratulations to Ben Yagoda on his new book Gobsmacked: The British Invasion of American English ! If you like this blog, you are going to like that book. I was both gobsmacked and chuffed to see that I was among the dedicatees of the book (and in wonderful company). It even has an appendix of my UK-to-US Words of the Year ! (And on that note—feel free to start nominating 2024's Transatlantic…