“WHEN DID YOU COME TO THIS COUNTRY, DENNIS?” PART 2
YESTERDAY, MARNIE CHESTERTON of BBC CrowdScience opened a discussion of “Why Can’t I Change my Accent?” Today in Part 2, she tells us about pitch, in more ways than one. … Continue reading
“WHEN DID YOU COME TO THIS COUNTRY, DENNIS?” PART 1
IMAGINE: THERE I WAS A (likely) fourth-generation American, and a teacher asked me that question. (I had yet to appreciate sarcasm.) True, as a native-born Clevelander, I spoke a dialect … Continue reading
FROM ’AMMERSMITH TO ’ACKNEY IS A TANNER
TONY HOGG WROTE AN R&T road test of the London Bus, most appropriately in April of 1963. Curiously enough, the test took part not in London, but in San Francisco, … Continue reading
A BRIEF EXPLANATORY TOUR OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY PART 2
YESTERDAY WE BEGAN A TOUR of Westminster Abbey, courtesy of Miranda Carter and her “Dudes in Drapes,” London Review of Books, October 6, 2022. Today in Part 2 she offers … Continue reading
A BRIEF EXPLANATORY TOUR OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY PART 1
WE ALL GOT TO SEE extensive TV coverage of the magnificent Westminster Abbey during the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. In London Review of Books, October 2, 2022, Miranda Carter … Continue reading
MGB 1800—FULL-PRESS MARKETING IN 1962
HAMBRO AUTOMOTIVE CORPORATION was the U.S. importer for MG, and in November 1962 it performed a full-press marketing of the MGB, the first revamping since this classic sports car eschewed … Continue reading
TEGEL GOES ECO
TEGEL HAS BEEN a hunting ground for the pleasure of Prussian nobles. It was home for Nazi rocket scientists. The airport played an important humanitarian role in the Berlin Airlift … Continue reading
BAEDEKER’S UNITED STATES
IN A CONTINUING EFFORT to assess how others around the world perceive us, these tidbits are gleaned from a definitive guidebook, Baedeker’s United States. Various Baedeker’s United States have been … Continue reading
BATTERY RECYCLING—MORE THAN AN ENVIRONMENTAL NICETY
AS CITED IN SAE INTERNATIONAL’S Automotive Engineering, October 2022, “Recycling battery materials is vital to the electric-vehicle future, but the way forward faces a host of hurdles.” Jim Motavalli describes … Continue reading
A GUIDE TO XENOPHOBE’S GUIDES
THESE GUIDES SAY, SATIRICALLY from the start, that xenophobia is “an irrational fear of foreigners, probably justified, always understandable.” Then, removing tongue from cheek, they’re described as “an irreverent look … Continue reading
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