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They're Turning Japanese (not Chinese) in illiterate Moreton-in-Marsh

Tom Winnifrith
Saturday 8 February 2014

I asked readers last week why the Station at the pretty Cotswolds town Moreton-in-Marsh, appeared to have signs in both English and Chinese. Silly me, Mu (a Japanese cat loving neighbour from Bristol) put me in my place straight away – the signs are in Japanese.

Apparently, according to my step mother, there are a lot of Japanese students and tourists who visit Moreton. But in staring at the Asian letters I missed something, PC station manager Teresa Ceesay may be a whizz at the Japanese but seems a bit less on the ball when it comes to….English.

Among the signs at her station are ones for Stow-in-the-Wold. I think, Teresa will find that she means Stow-on-the-Wold. The Japanese version gets it right.

Unlike Teresa, I stand corrected.

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