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# Should we ban the word 'blog?' Tim Dowling asks. He tells us that the editor of US Vogue magazine thinks the word is vulgar and has banned it from their website.

# Retrenching: Borders, the second largest bookstore chain in America after Barnes & Noble, is in the process of reorganization and may pull out of the UK, which it entered in 1998.

# Speaking of chainstores: Andrew Simms writes an Op-Ed piece in which he compares chain stores like Tesco supermarkets and Starbucks coffee shops to invasive species which are ruining the English retail ecosystem.

# Anglophiles in New York City are kicking off a campaign today to have a corner of the West Village around Greenwich Avenue officially renamed Little Britain.

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