The Toynbee Convector draws our attention to a YouTube video of London in 1903. It turns out that it's part of the British Film Institute's collection which they've put on YouTube. Well worth exploring. I particularly enjoyed this one recording trains and the railways from the harsh winter of 1963 (this is me trying out video embedding):
oblong (and a bit about ovals)
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Ben Zimmer forwarded me this post from Threads, in which the writer Ruth
Ware finds a transatlantic difference between AmE and BrE interpretations
of *ob...
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