Shaw had it half right: Not only are England and America two nations separated by a common language, but we’re also forever riven by custom. Perverse contrarians, the Brits revel in doing things the wrong way ‘round, steering from the passenger’s seat, adding the letter “u” where it’s not welcome and feasting on culinary dog ends like Spotted Dick and blood pudding.
Piers Morgan wears his obstinacy proudly, like a crisp new cricket jersey. A curious choice to fill Larry King’s braces—stateside, he’s best known as the overbearing judge on America’s Got Talent—Morgan is less encumbered by his ruddy Anglicisms than the format of the show itself.
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