Re: New York Times Archive


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Don Moody wrote:

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In the hope that it's of use to someone: the New York Times
archive,
1851 to date, can be searched free at http://query.nytimes.com/
There's a small fee for for full view of some articles, but most
are
free upon registration. There seem to be quite a lot of UK-related
articles, often reprinted from UK papers, at least judging by my
one-
and-a-bit place study.


But do be careful about what you look for and find.

My American cousin sent me a cutting from the NYT last week (it is
his local rag) just to wind me up. It recounts a gastrotour of
Scotland by one Frank Bruni and neither that gent nor his
subeditors saw what was wrong with "Scottish malt whiskey" in a
heading. I'm inclined to ask the ignorant idiot Bruni if he can
recommend a good Rioja from Italy.

If that is a fair sample of NYT accuracy of sub-editing, then I
don't hold out much hope for those trying to do character-string
searches.

(G). More likely it's a fair sample of NYT's recognition that 90%
of its readership doesn't know whisky is a real word and half the
other 10% think you can ride in it. It is, after all, an American
Newspaper intended to be read by Americans.

Which is exactly the problem for people on this side of the Pond who
think only in English English.

It's also why the dictionary on the shelf next to my Oxford English is
Webster's. I really do treat 'American' as a foreign language in which
I needs must check the vocab in its relevant dictionary.

Don


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