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It can't be stressed enough how much Paper Monitor loves papers. So this column is always delighted when that love is reciprocated right back.

Yesterday the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ News Magazine ran a feature on the Britishisation of American English, which proved rather popular with readers.

So full credit to the Daily Mail for turning around a mere 15-and-a-half hours after ours was published.

"And imitation is indeed the highest form of flattery," runs the third par of the Mail's copy.

Paper Monitor couldn't agree more. As, it seems, do various other major news outlets.

The Magazine's recent article on the man who turned his home into a public library was flattered shortly afterwards by

A few weeks ago, a two-year-old Magazine story about the rise of middle-aged men in lycra crept back into the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ News "most popular" index.

The following day, it transpired that Matt Seaton of the Guardian had, for some reason,

In early August the Magazine visited the independent coffee republic of Totnes.

By the next weekend,

And a few days after that - was he flattering the Magazine, or the Telegraph, do you think? -

There are numerous other notable examples of the Magazine's "competitors" showing us just how much they care.

The and also paid their own special tribute to our piece about flat adverts that may be breaking the law, for instance.

Or providing its own take on our feature on the myth of the eight-hour sleep.

Or the baby time-lapse trend, reversioned by

Or the Magazine's take on how hummus conquered Britain, and the Daily Mail's

So a note to our fellow features desks: Thank you. Rest assured, we're feeling the love.

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