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Mind your language

Around v about: British English v American – not to mention across

14 April 2018

9:00 AM

14 April 2018

9:00 AM

Crooning is I think the word to describe what my husband was doing to the lyrics of a Beach Boys number. ‘Round, round, get around, I get around,’ he crooned ludicrously, for no one less like a Beach Boy than he, with his frayed tweed jacket cuffs, could be imagined.

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