Daily Archives: October 30, 2003

Garry ‘Stretch’ Turner was hoping to clip more than 153 pegs to his face at the launch of the 2004 Guinness Book of Records in Manchester. But his effort at the city’s Arndale Centre failed when he managed to clip … Continue reading →

An interesting article from the New York Times about the tendency in Japan to use or not to use honorific titles. This goes to the point of one of my areas of special interest – the relationship between language and culture, … Continue reading →