“Honours” in the United Kingdom: More Than a Difference of Spelling in Honors Education

Authors

Margaret Lamb, University of Connecticut

Date of this Version

2012

Document Type

Article

Citation

Published in Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, Fall/Winter 2012, Volume 13, Number 2

Comments

Copyright 2012 by the National Collegiate Honors Council

Abstract

The first edition of Jane Walmsley’s book Brit-Think, Ameri-Think: A Transatlantic Survival Guide came out in 1986. I noticed the book because she was a familiar name, a TV broadcaster, American by birth (like me), married to a Brit (like me), and had lived in England for two decades (I was well into my first decade in England). I recognized from my own experience many of the examples (often hilarious) cited by the author.