LINGUIST List 4.646

Tue 31 Aug 1993

FYI: BBC Style, Fun

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    Message 1: BBC Stylebook

     Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 12:31:29 BBC Stylebook
    From: <SSHELLYacs.wooster.edu>
    Subject: BBC Stylebook


    Thanks to Michael Covington and to Jeroen Wiedenhof, who provided the full address of the BBC. In case anyone else is interested:

    BBC English Programmes BBC Worldservice Bush House London W1A 1AA

    Thanks also to Mireille Langenbach, who mentions a previous BBC publication: _The Spoken Word: a BBC Guide_, edited by Robert Burchfield in 1981 and published by Oxford U. Press in 1982. I found it in our College library. From what I gather, the "BBC News and Current Affairs Stylebook" I've been hearing about must be an updated version.

    Sharon Shelly

    Message 2: RE: 4.634 Fun (sort of): it's not Yiddish

    Date: Tue, 31 Aug 93 12:39 MET
    From: <WERTHalf.let.uva.nl>
    Subject: RE: 4.634 Fun (sort of): it's not Yiddish


    Another potentially rich vein of Just for Fun contributions: inappropriate uses of English in trade names, clothing inscriptions etc. (or equally, English uses of French etc. in similar contexts). Here are two offerings, noticed recently: 1) In a shopping mall in Auchan, N.France (a place-name, incidentally, which I always want to pronounce as though it were Scottish): a "Foot Locker"-type shop called The Athlete's Foot (I'd have thought that was the last phrase you'd want to breathe within a mile of plastic footwear). 2) A children's clothing store in Antwerp, Belgium, called Bimbo. Greetings, Paul Werth.