ErikthViking
UTC Legend
Did wonder re the 'color commentator'. Partly assumed it must have been a mistype
Winston Churchill is often attributed with the quote, "The British and Americans are two people separated by a common language." Although it is unlikely that he said it. He certainly didn't invent the phrase or concept. George Bernard Shaw had allegedly came up with something similar (1942). Bertrand Russel certainly had in 1944, "It is a misfortune for Anglo-American friendship that the two countries are supposed to have a common language." In 1954, Dylan Thomas had a stab at it too,
Europeans and Americans are "up against the barrier of a common language"
More accurately, perhaps, and earlier (1887), in the short story, The Canterville Ghost, Oscar Wilde wrote, "... we have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language."
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