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This BBC article might be of interest to some. scoodly

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Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:34:54 +0000

More reaction from Nurnberg.

And from languagehat, with some good comments. I like the one pointing out that the name of the supposed author, Cordelia Hebblethwaite, sounds too Wodehousian to be legitimate to American ears, and wondering if her colleague Nigel Frump-Ditherington was unavailable.

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