'two nations divided by a common language?'
I guess this is what they were talking about, as
she is spoke in the U.S. as an aside the quote is ascribed to as far as I can
tell three people, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw and even Winston
Churchill, ‘Was it Wilde or Shaw?’ is the main question people ask, the answer appears to be: both, in The
Canterville Ghost (1887), Wilde wrote: ‘We have really everything in common
with America nowadays except, of course, language’, however, the 1951 Treasury
of Humorous Quotations (Esar & Bentley) quotes Shaw as saying: ‘England and
America are two countries separated by the same language’, but without giving a
source, the quote had earlier been attributed to Shaw in Reader’s Digest (November 1942), Churchill used
the phrase in his speech at Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts (September 6, 1943); in Robert Rhodes James, ed., Winston S.
Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963 (1974), vol. 7, p. 6825, for
some popular phrases that people never said have a
look here, what more can I say?
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