We recently came across a mighty fine online survey of North American dialects, currently being undertaken by a Harvard professor, which reveals among other things that almost a third of Americans pronounce the word 'poem' as tho' it had but one syllable, that over 20% place the stress on the 'um' in umbrella, and that just 0.28% use the term 'baguette' to refer to 'a long sandwich that contains cold cuts, lettuce, and so on', over three-quarters preferring 'sub'.  Most disturbing revelation is that Americans have a variety of terms for 'the act of covering a house or area in front of a house with toilet paper' - the most popular being tp'ing, at 57.03%; most beguiling, that they also have many ways to describe 'what you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining', including 'sunshower', 'pineapple rain' and - most bizarrely - 'the wolf is giving birth'. 

More prosaically, we've recently expanded the 'BT' section of our site from three samples to nine, to offer a more representative cross-section of the hundreds of jobs we've done for them over the years - and also a pretty good snapshot of the range of work we take on, from flagship publications through sales brochures to customer welcome letters. 

Kind regards


Alan Paterson
ampers&
020 7379 5869
www.wherewordswork.com
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