Monday, March 10, 2008



RM pointed out my hometown of South Wellington sort-of name-checked on p.125 of the 1961 Penguin of S. H. Steinberg's Five Hundred Years of Printing:--

"Every book or newspaper printed in the English language is immediately intelligible to the Cockney, the Canadian, and the Californian, and to every inhabitant of every Wellington, whether in British Columbia, Ontario, Cape Province, Shropshire, Somerset, New South Wales, New Zealand, South Australia, Western Australia, Kansas, Ohio, Texas--regardless of the variations of speech, local, regional, and national."