(now almost wholly OT) Re: "Fog in English Channel: Continent Isolated" antedated to 1931

[Mark Mandel]

(OT except that it relates to spelling and pronunciation.)

Arnold's post reminded me of a YA (young adult) fantasy novel whose title I
remembered as _The Man from Reading_, pronounced /'ri:dIN/ like the verb,
not /'rEdIN/ like the cities in England and Pennsylvania. Google Book search
eventually turned it up under the title _A Pack of
Lies<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0761455795/cracksandshar-20>_
by Geraldine McCaughrean; "the Man from Reading" is the title character, and
the pronunciation difference is a crucial part of the story.

Hm. Now that I've found the title, I think I'll find the book and reread it.

m a m

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

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> ...
>
from real life:
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> when i was a child, some 50 years ago, and worked on the Reading Eagle in
> Reading PA, every day the staff enjoyed the issues of the Lebanon (PA) Daily
> News (we pored over local papers throughout eastern PA, including
> Philadelphia, and beyond -- the Sacramento Bee, for instance -- to see how
> their coverage of stories compared to ours), because the Lebanon paper was
> committed to genuinely local news, either stories about local events or
> local takes on stories from the wider world; they reasoned that people would
> get more detailed coverage of non-local events from the papers in Harrisburg
> or Lancaster (both twice+ the size of Lebanon, which is really a pretty
> small place) or, especially, Reading (three or four times the size, with two
> papers committed to general news coverage).
>
 ...

> arnold
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