Titbits

For those of you who asked: TITBITS=UK ; TIDBITS=US

Resource oh the month: East of the web

For short stories and online games. You’re welcome!
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/

What is black and white but read all over?

What the newspapers you read say about you... A fun description of readers of English papers...

The Times is read by the people who run the country
The Mirror is read by the people who think they run the country
The Guardian is read by the people who think about running the country
The Morning Star is read by the people who think they ought to run the country
The Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country
The Telegraph is read by the people who think the country ought to be run as it used to be
The Express is read by the people who think it still is run as it used to be
The Sun is read by the people who don’t care who runs the country as long as the girl on page 3 is attractive.


Here are the links to the aforesaid English papers. (Wonderful to keep up to date with expressions, download podcasts, view videos, etc, etc)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
http://www.express.co.uk/
http://www.thesun.co.uk/

Click here if you are interested in finding out what’s going on in Ireland
http://www.journalismnet.com/papers/ireland.htm

On this site you will find a list of Scottish papers
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/scotland.htm

And on this one, a list of American papers
http://www.thebigproject.co.uk/USNewspapers/

D&U News (Australia and New Zealand)
www.nla.gov.au/npapers
www.onlinenewspapers.com/nz.htm

Fleet Street

The road in London where most of Britain's national newspapers were produced in the past. Nowadays, it is often used to refer to British national newspapers in general:He's a Fleet Street journalist (= He works for a British national newspaper). (THANKS TO http://www.dictionary.cambridge.org/)

Word of the month: the longest word in English

Antidisestablishmentarianism: noun [U] SPECIALIZED - opposition to the belief that there should not be an official relationship between a country's government and its national church (THANKS TO http://www.dictionary.cambridge.org/)