December, 2009

Separated by a common language, guest post by Roy Jacobsen

The first time I ended up on Elaine’s blog, I found myself giggling about her article “A few little words – why straplines matter.” I knew immediately from the context what she was talking about, but for this American reader, straplines are what show up on a woman’s sun-tanned shoulders. So straplines matter here, as well; just not for the same reasons.

England and America are indeed “separated by a common language.”

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