Thursday, 16 March 2017

Language Change - Useful Revision

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08g5533
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Michael Rosen on the Americanisation of English, with Lynne Murphy and Matthew Engel.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08ffvp6
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Is emoji really the world's fastest-growing language? Michael Rosen finds out.


Wednesday, 8 March 2017

Fry's English Delight

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08fdhrx
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Comedian Adam Hills - who studied linguistics at university - helps Stephen Fry uncover the history of Australian English, from its beginnings in the early 1700s to ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08g3rb9
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Stephen Fry openly uses his own experience of mental ill health to consider the ever-changing way in which what's commonly called madness is talked and written about ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08dmr0d
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Stephen Fry with a story of sounds . From the involuntary sounds people make - Oh! Ah! Mmmm, Ooops - to some of our favourite onomatopoeia - Bang!, crash ...