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Ellen Wallace
Ellen Wallace
 

Okay, it’s Monday, everyone was out having fun all weekend, and it’s hard to get back on track. I was reading a BBC story and my eye wandered over to the right, to the most popular stories list. The BBC’s favourites are usually good, unlike those on most sites. I thought I would read one on bilingual brains, but I was distracted by one about a road sign, which sounded vaguely familiar.

It was. I read it when it first came out two years ago. It’s about a silly mistake that made it onto a Welsh road sign, a problem which in a circular way takes me to the bilingual brain story. But wait, I thought, the BBC isn’t that complicated. Why is a two-year-old story suddenly so popular? And then I saw the technical mistake, about the road sign story mistake.

I can only conclude it is indeed Monday. From the BBC:

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Most popular stories now

  1. Israel ‘intercepts Gaza flotilla’

  2. E-mail error ends up on road sign

  3. ‘Bilingual brain’ effects probed

  4. Gaza flotilla as it happens

  5. Hopes for breast cancer vaccine

Posted by :: Ellen Wallace on 31 May 2010 at 13:23 | permalink
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GenevaLunch, 31 May 2010.

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