Monday, March 14, 2011

No reason to be mardy about Americanisms

From The Guardian

"Mr Tickle munched his biscuit. He looked out of the window. 'Today looks very much like a tickling day,' he thought to himself." From Hawaii to Cape Town, São Paolo to the Philippines, I can't imagine that Roger Hargreaves would have been anything other than delighted to know that all around the world, people are reading his epic tale of a tickle with "extraordinary long arms" out loud as part of the British Library's project to "capture the sounds of spoken English" everywhere (have a listen – it's great stuff).

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