Based on a few lines in perltodo for 5.6, I've written a new module called Regex::English. Ominous name, no? Here's an example: 
my $time;
my $re = Regex::English
    -> start_of_line()
    -> literal("1998/10/08")
    -> optional( whitespace() )
    -> literal("[")
    -> remember(\$time, many( or( ":", digit() ) ))
    -> non_digit();

if ($re->match('1998/10/08 [11:10]')) {
    print "Found a match at time $time!\n";
}

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Okay, that's not a big win for much besides readability, but it could help non-regex-gurus. It was kinda neat to write, too. It's a little long to post here, but it would be great to get some feedback. I'll keep updating the module on my site.

Feedback, suggestions, patches, questions are all welcome. It'd be cool to have a preliminary upload to the CPAN by this weekend.

In reply to Pondering Regex::English by chromatic

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