LINGUIST List 14.713

Wed Mar 12 2003

Media: BBC: The sign

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Message 1: Media: BBC: The sign

Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:08:24 +0800
From: Karen S. Chung <karchungntu.edu.tw>
Subject: Media: BBC: The sign

Some of you may remember the survey on names for the sign in different languages (see:

http://linguistlist.org/issues/7/7-968.html #1, http://linguistlist.org/issues/7/7-1177.html #1 and http://linguistlist.org/issues/11/11-1970.html #1).

The BBC has picked up on the story, and broadcast a feature on the sign in the March 12, 2003 European edition of the _The World Today_. An audio file of the broadcast is available at this URL:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ram/europe.ram

The audio link can also be accessed from this text page:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/worldtoday_news_europe.shtml

It's an hour-long program, and the feature doesn't start till about the 53 minute point. You can push the cursor to almost the end of the slidebar to get to the feature more quickly.

For those interested, a number of links to other media reports in various languages on the sign are collected here:

http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/linguistics%20links.htm#karchung

The BBC feature concludes with a call for listeners to contribute further names for the sign in their own languages. So if a name used for the sign in a language you know is not included in the above sums, please do write and let me know - and/or e-mail the BBC at world.todaybbc.co.uk - and I may be able to summarize yet again!

Another round of thanks to all the people who helped with the original survey!

Karen Steffen Chung National Taiwan University karchungntu.edu.tw

http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/ http://www.topica.com/lists/phonetics/