Headline on Slate.com (owned by the Washington Post Corporation), December 14, 2011:
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What I’m Reading, What I’ve Read
'Ginger,' 'Bits,' 'Whinge,' and other U.K. expressions that have got popular in the U.S.
Headline on Slate.com (owned by the Washington Post Corporation), December 14, 2011:
Calm down!
This article, written by a Brit expat, is explicitly concerned with “foreign” (British and Commonwealth) TV shows on Hulu. The use of “telly” in the headline is clearly self-conscious here. It doesn’t mean that the word is invading America.
Phew.
Last night I saw a little worm, wriggling on his belly.
I asked him if he’d come inside and see what’s on the telly.
-Spike Milligan.
Reputedly, the Welsh for ‘television’ is ‘teleweli’.
It’s “tiledu”.
I’ve been listening to a lot of Prince over the past few days and remembered how much I’m bothered by his use of the word Telly in Sign O the Times.